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

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

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.

OUT OF AFRICA Modern Library No. 23

Modern Library

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

In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses. A despairing author abandons his wife, but in the course of a long night's wandering, he learns love's true value and returns to her, only to find her a different woman than the one he left. A landowner, seeking to prove a principle, inadvertently exposes the ferocity of mother love. A wealthy young traveler melts the hauteur of a lovely woman by masquerading as her aged and loyal servant. Shimmering and haunting, Dinesen's Winter's Tales transport us, through their author's deft guidance of our desire to imagine, to the mysterious place where all stories are born.

Winter's Tales

Genre Fiction

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by isak-dinesen. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by isak-dinesen