Winter's Tales by Isak Dinesen

I recently found out that my local library has a few books by Isak Dinesen that I wasn't able to get my hands on before, so naturally I pounced on them immediately. As ever, this collection is absolutely fantastic; dark, fascinating, philosophical, enigmatic, and splendidly Gothic. Isak Dinesen's style is so rich and profoundly magical, she has the truly singular gift of compressing entire worlds into a handful of words, into the peculiar structure of a single sentence. My complaint, as usual, is that everything else, including real life, pales in comparison to these wonderful stories, and I'm left unwilling to read anything else. My favourite stories out of this collection were 'The Young Man with the Carnation', 'The Pearls', and 'Sorrow-Acre'. (Also, despite the title, the stories have nothing in particular to do with winter, except for an allusion to Perdita from the Shakespeare play in one of the stories).