"Dinesen's stories are the work of a writer with a powerful imagination and a shrewd intelligence." –
The New York Times Book Review "[Like] fairy stories read in childhood...of dreams...and of our life as dreams." –
The New York Times "[Dinesen's] imagination could visit, it seemed, any corner of European history and find there a tale tinged with the luster and vivid shadowing of medieval allegory." –
John Updike "Stories that belong in that special realm in which artistry is more real than reality."
–Time