Out Of Africa And Shadows On The Grass
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Out Of Africa
Author | : Isak Dinesen |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781443432955 |
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In Out of Africa, author Isak Dinesen takes a wistful and nostalgic look back on her years living in Africa on a Kenyan coffee plantation. Recalling the lives of friends and neighbours—both African and European—Dinesen provides a first-hand perspective of colonial Africa. Through her obvious love of both the landscape and her time in Africa, Dinesen’s meditative writing style deeply reflects the themes of loss as her plantation fails and she returns to Europe. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
Author | : Isak Dinesen |
Publsiher | : G K Hall & Company |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0816141827 |
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Set in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen's years in Africa--together with Shadows on the Grass. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Shadows on the Grass
Author | : Isak Dinesen,Karen Blixen |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 1990-10-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780141961460 |
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Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. The first three were written in the 1950s and the last, 'Echoes from the Hills', was written especially for this volume in the summer of 1960 when the author was in her seventies. In all they provide a moving final chapter to her African reminiscences.
Out of Africa
Author | : Isak Dinesen |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2011-05-18 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780307794093 |
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With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.
Out of Africa
Author | : Isak Dinesen |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2001-09-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780141913872 |
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From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. Out of Africa is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman and of a way of life that has vanished for ever.
Isak Dinesen
Author | : Judith Thurman |
Publsiher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 2022-12-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781250857101 |
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Judith Thurman’s brilliant, National Book Award–winning biography of Isak Dinesen—now with a new foreword by the author A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Dinesen’s magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established her as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman’s classic work explores Dinesen’s life. Until the appearance of this book, the life and art of Isak Dinesen have been—as Dinesen herself wrote of two lovers in a tale—“a pair of locked caskets, each containing the key to the other.” Judith Thurman has provided the master key to them both.
Anecdotes of Destiny
Author | : Isak Dinesen |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2001-04-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780141961491 |
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These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, ‘Babette’s Feast’, which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast of a lifetime. There is also a real-life Prospero and his Ariel in ‘Tempests’, a mysterious pearl-fisher in ‘The Diver’ and a brief, tragic encounter in ‘The Ring’. All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last to be written by Isak Dinesen, and show her as a master of short fiction.
Too Close to the Sun
Author | : Sara Wheeler |
Publsiher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2009-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812968927 |
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A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Denys Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler tells the truth about this extraordinarily charismatic adventurer. Born to an old aristocratic family that had gambled away most of its fortune, Finch Hatton grew up in a world of effortless elegance and boundless power. In 1910, searching for something new, he arrived in British East Africa and fell in love–with a continent, with a landscape, with a way of life that was about to change forever. In Nairobi, Finch Hatton met Karen Blixen and embarked on one of the great love affairs of the twentieth century. Intellectual equals, Finch Hatton and Blixen were genuine pioneers in a land that was quickly being transformed by violence, greed, and bigotry. Ever restless, Finch Hatton wandered into a career as a big-game hunter and became an expert bush pilot. Mesmerized all his life by the allure of freedom and danger, Finch Hatton was, writes Wheeler, “the open road made flesh.”