Shadows on the Grass
Shadows on the Grass

Author: Isak Dinesen

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1990-10-25

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 0141961465

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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
Out Of Africa

Author: Isak Dinesen

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1443432954

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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.

Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen

Author: Judith Thurman

Publisher: Picador

Published: 2022-12-06

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 1250857104

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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.

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

Author: Isak Dinesen

Publisher: G K Hall & Company

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 9780816141821

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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.

Last Tales
Last Tales

Author: Isak Dinesen

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-04-27

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0307790746

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Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; "The Caryatids," an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy's spell; and three tales of winter, including "Converse at Night in Copenhagen," a drunken, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.

Gothic Tales
Gothic Tales

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 0198734298

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This collection brings together 33 of Arthur Conan Doyle's best Gothic Tales for the first time.

Modern Gothic
Modern Gothic

Author: Victor Sage

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780719042089

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This lively collection of essays aims to chart the survival of the gothic strain - the dark, the forbidding, the alienated, the fantastic - in a spectrum of popular and 'high cultural' forms of representation.

Night Shade
Night Shade

Author: Victoria A. Brownworth

Publisher: Seal Press (CA)

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781580050241

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A collection of stories by such women authors as Joanne Dahme, Roz Warren, Joyce Wagner, Jean Stewart, and Linda K. Wright

Anecdotes of Destiny
Anecdotes of Destiny

Author: Isak Dinesen

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2001-04-26

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 014196149X

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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.

Letters from Africa, 1914-1931
Letters from Africa, 1914-1931

Author: Isak Dinesen

Publisher:

Published: 1984-04

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780226153117

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Written to her family, these letters recount the failure of Dinesen's marriage, the financial collapse of her husband's coffee plantation, and her experiences in Kenya