Summary: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1957
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1981
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1985
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Summary: A collection of seven stories by the Danish author, written in English and first published in 1934.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
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Summary: Early in the 19th century, a couple stay in seclusion to hide the woman's pregnancy caused by premarital indiscretion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1963
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Summary: In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1992
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Contents: The deluge at Norderney.--The old chevalier.--The monkey.--The roads round Pisa.--The supper at Elsinore.--The dreamers.--The poet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1961
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A wealthy merchant in nineteenth century Macao becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IMMSummary: With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and ale bread-- a gourmet French meal! Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2001