Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass (Thorndike Press Large Print Paperback Series) - Softcover

Dinesen, Isak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816141827 ISBN 13: 9780816141821

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1986

Synopsis

Presents Dinesen's compelling account of the fifteen years she spent managing a coffee plantation in colonial East Africa and four sketches that evoke the land and the people of her beloved Africa

About this title

About the Author:

Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of Karen Blixen, born in Denmark in 1885. After her marriage in 1914 to Baren Bror Blixen, she and her husband lived in British East Africa, where they owned a coffee plantation. She divorced from her husband in 1921 but continued to manage the plantation for another ten years, until the collapse of the coffee market forced her to sell the property and return to Denmark in 1931. There she began to write in English under the nom de plume Isak Dinesen. Her first book, and literary success, was Seven Gothic Tales. It was followed by Out of Africa, The Angelic Avengers (written under the pseudonym Pierre Andrezel), Winter's Tales, Last Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny, Shadows on the Grass, and Ehrengard. She died in 1962.

From the Inside Flap:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0816141827
• ISBN 13: 9780816141821
• Binding: Paperback