In many ways a love letter written to the people and places that so marked the author, this book tells the story of the love between a Danish woman and a vagabond in 1920s Kenya. The book has been made into a film.

Out of Africa

Biographies & Memoirs

Karen Blixen

isak-dinesen

Travelers & Explorers

Penguin??Books

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.

Shadows on the Grass

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin Classic

Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934, this collection is shot through with themes of love and desire - from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time, to the Count whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels, and Lincoln Forsner, an Englishman whose search for a woman he met in a brothel leads him into many strange adventures.

Seven Gothic Tales (Penguin Modern Classics)

Genre Fiction

Three titles from Winter's Tales - The Dreaming Child, Peter and Rosa and The Sailor-boy's Tale, by Isak Dineson, alias Baroness Karen Blixen.

'''THE DREAMING CHILD (PENGUIN 60S)'

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Carnival is an animated collection of works from every stage of Isak Dinesen's career. Many were written during her most creative years but set aside; others she wrote "just for entertainment." The collection includes "Second Meeting," her last work, and the title story, the first written under her now-famous pen name. None of these stories has previously appeared in book form in English. Three of them were translated especially for this collection by P. M. Mitchell and W. D. Paden. "The editors have included only material that will stand easily with her more familiar work and satisfy her large following. . . . The rough drafts and variant treatments have been set aside for scholars."—Joseph McLellan, Washington Post "The wit, the imagination, the elevated philosophical dialogue mark most of the stories in this volume as vintage Dinesen . . . of special interest to Dinesen fans."—Robert Langbaum, New York Times Book Review

Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

Little Clothbound irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Karen Blixen, author of the acclaimed memoir Out of Africa , was also a master of the short story her tales offer luminous meditations on rebirth and redemption, on the mystery and unexpectedness of human behaviour. Alongside 'Babette's Feast', this selection also includes 'Sorrow-Acre', often thought to be one of her finest stories.'Tales as delicate as Venetian glass', The New York Times

Babette's Feast (Little Clothbound Classics)

Penguin Classics

Isak Dinesen Letters from Africa, 1914-31

Letters from Africa, 1914-31

Frans Lasson (EDitor)

Translated by Anne Born

Travel

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

'LETTERS FROM AFRICA, 1914-31 (PICADOR BOOKS)'

Community & Culture

Pan.

Recounts the author's life as a homesteader in Kenya during the early part of the twentieth century

History

Crown

Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and Poe.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Seven Gothic Tales

Short Stories & Anthologies

TRIAD BOOKS

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Out of Africa

Shadows on the Grass

Seven Gothic Tales (Penguin Modern Classics)

'''THE DREAMING CHILD (PENGUIN 60S)'

Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales

Babette's Feast (Little Clothbound Classics)

Letters from Africa, 1914-31

'LETTERS FROM AFRICA, 1914-31 (PICADOR BOOKS)'

Out of Africa

Seven Gothic Tales