Shadows on the Grass
$28.13
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
25 October 1990
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140180435 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140180435 |
| Author: | Karen Blixen, Isak Dinesen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 25 October 1990 |
| Weight: | 114g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Karen Blixen
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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