Babette’s Feast

Babette’s Feast, short story by Isak Dinesen, published serially in the Ladies’ Home Journal (1950) and later collected in the volume Anecdotes of Destiny (1958). It was also published in Danish in 1958. The tale concerns a French refugee whose artistic sensuality contrasts with the puritanical ethos of her new home in Norway. Fleeing the Commune of Paris in 1871, Babette arrives in a small Norwegian town, where she is taken in as a servant...