A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow-Acre"
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Sorrow-Acre
Isak Dinesen
1942
Introduction
First published in Danish as part of the collection Winter’s Tales, Sorrow-Acre
is the most frequently anthologized of Dinesen’s short stories. Written upon her return to Denmark after more than a decade in Africa, and during the darkest days of World War II, the collection’s title has a double meaning, referring to both the cold, northern climate in which Dinesen found herself and to the war raging all around her. As Thomas Whissen writes, "[D]enied a sword, she took up the only weapon she had—her pen—and wrote Winter’s Tales. Huddled behind blackout curtains in that draughty old house on the sound, cut off from the world, aware that she was being watched (German soldiers camped in her backyard), she began writing tales again, the first in nearly a