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Author: Isak DinesenPublisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-10: 0226153118
Subject: Biography & AutobiographyISBN-13: 9780226153117
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A collection of the letters sent by Baroness Blixen to friends and relatives in Europe during the seventeen years she lived on a coffee plantation in Kenya, translated from the original Danish.

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Height:9.0 in.
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Weight:27.2 oz.

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Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction...made her an international success and a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature...[these letters+ contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir Out Of Africa.

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"These letters written mostly to her supportive mother and younger brother, contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir 'Out of Africa'. They also reveal her as a highly intelligent and sensitive analyst of a strange new world."
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"If her correspondence reveals anything of value, it is that Karen Blixen, like most people, was a combination of sense and nonsense, of good and bad, of sacrifice and self-absorption. The remarkable thing about her was not that she shot lions or dined with royalty or was an early precursor of feminism, but that she wrote well. For evidence of that, however, one should read her books, not her letters."
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"The letters demonstrate [Dinesen's] culture and her intimate involvement with art, literature, and ideas--particularly social thought about the role of women--and they share with the memoir a passion for Africa, its landscape, its peoples, its plants, and its wildlife."
Rodriguez 

"The fascination of this book is not just in the rounded picture it provides of a vanished Africa, vivid though that is, but rather in the way it reveals the tormented landowner developing into the assured literary artist: the confusions of Karen Blixen become the fictional material for the 'one who laughs'....This absorbing, brilliant book has been admirably translated by Anne Born, who admirably captures the Blixen tone."
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Letters from Africa, 1914-1931

Isak Dinesen

Book Notes: Letters from Africa, 1914-1931
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ISBN: 0226153118
Publication Date: 1984-04-15
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 516
Height: 1.1700 inches
Width: 6.0000 inches
Weight: 1.8300 pounds

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