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DINESEN, ISAK Out of Africa & Shadows On The Grass
Vintage November 12, 19 0-394-74211-7 / 9780394742113 Paperback Very Good
Out of Africa is Karin Blixen's love letter to the country she called home for nearly 20 years. Arriving in British East Africa (now Kenya) from Denma rk in 1914, Blixen--Isak Dinesen was her pen name--was immediately seduced by the landscape of the Ngong hill country, not to mention the animals and people who inhabited it. Her descriptions bring this wonderland alive for r eaders: out on safari, she recalls the movements of a group of giraffes, "i n their queer, inimitable, vegetative gracefulness, as if it were not a her d of animals but a family of rare, long-stemmed, speckled gigantic flowers slowly advancing." Blixen laces into her reverie the account of her coffee plantation--which ultimately succumbed to high altitude, droughts, and tumb ling international coffee prices--and tales of her friendships with other c olonials in Nairobi. But one should read her memoir for the stories she tel ls of cooking with her Kikuyu chef (who almost never ate any of the Europea n delicacies he so expertly created), adopting an abandoned infant antelope , flying over the countryside in her lover's plane--"the greatest, most tra nsporting pleasure of my life on the farm"--and watching the children of he r tenant farmers collect at her house each day at noon for the spectacle of her cuckoo clock.
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Dinesen, Isak Shadows of the Grass
Penguin Books October 1984 0-14-018043-5 / 9780140180435 Paperback Very Good+
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: 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.
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Dinesen, Isak Shadows on the Grass
Penguin Books 1984 0-14-006631-4 / 9780140066319 Paperback Very Good+
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 B lixen. With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty a nd 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 pro vide a moving final chapter to her African reminiscences.
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Dinesen, Isak Winter's Tales
Penguin Classics September 27, 2 0-14-118588-0 / 9780141185880 Paperback Fine
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: If one theme unifies the 11 tales collected here, it is that of longing. Written after her return from Kenya and during the dark days of the Nazi occupation, they derive their themes and locales from Isak Dinesen's childhood in Denmark. Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce in 1921, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark in 1931.
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Dinesen, Isak Winter's Tales (Twentieth Century Classics S.)
Penguin Books Ltd October 26, 198 0-14-018045-1 / 9780140180459 Paperback Fine
Born Christentze Dinesen on April 17, 1885, in Rungsted, Denmark, Isak Dine sen is known for her plays, short stories, novels, and poetry. She was cons idered by many to be Denmark's greatest lyric poet. She also produced a wid ely read autobiography and memoirs. Dinesen studied English at Oxford Unive rsity, 1904 and painting at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, and in Paris a nd Rome. Dinesen's career as a writer spanned from 1907 to 1962. She was pu blished in Danish under the name of Karen Blixen and in English under the p seudonym of Isak Dinesen. Her short story collections include Winter Tales (1942) and Last Tales (1957). Novels inspired by her experiences in Africa include Out of Africa (1937) and Shadows in the Grass (1960). Actress Meryl Streep portrayed Dinesen in the Oscar-winning film Out of Africa, which wa s adapted from her work in 1985. Isak Dinesen died of emaciation September 7, 1962, in Rungsted.
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