Out of Africa: Popular Penguins
$16.54
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
29 August 2011
Summary
In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee-farm. Drawn to the exquisite beauty of Africa, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed.
A poignant farewell to her beloved farm, Out of Africa describes her friendships with the local people, her dedication for the landscape and wildlife, and great love for the adventurer Denys Finch-Hatton.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143566366 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143566369 |
| Author: | Karen Blixen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 111mm x 179mm |
| Series: | Popular Penguins |
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Karen Blixen
Karen Blixen, born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885, also wrote under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. After studying art in Copenhagen, Paris, and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they managed a coffee plantation in Kenya. 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.
Although she had written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905 (under the nom de plume of Osceola), her real debut took place in 1934 with the publication of Seven Gothic Tales, written in English under her pen-name. Out of Africa (1937) is an autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya. Most of her subsequent books were published in English and Danish simultaneously, including Winter’s Tales (1942) and The Angelic Avengers (1946), under the name of Pierre Andrezol. Among her other collections of stories are Last Tales (1957), Anecdotes of Destiny (1958), Shadows on the Grass (1960) and Ehrengard (1963).
Baroness Blixen died in Rungsted in 1962.
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