Out of Africa: Pocket Penguins
Autor Karen Blixenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mai 2016
In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written, Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century, and the love affair that changed her life.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241262115
ISBN-10: 0241262119
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 129 x 181 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Pocket Penguins
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241262119
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 129 x 181 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Pocket Penguins
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Karen
Blixen
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.
Although she had written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905 (under thenom de plumeof Osceola), her real début took place in 1934 with the publication ofSeven Gothic Tales, written in English under her pen-name.Out of Africa(1937) is an autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya. Most of her subsequent books were published in English and Danish simultaneously, includingWinter's Tales(1942) andThe Angelic Avengers(1946), under the name of Pierre Andrézol. Among her other collections of stories areLast Tales(1957),Anecdotes of Destiny(1958),Shadows on the Grass(1960) andEhrengard(1963).
Baroness Blixen died in Rungsted in 1962.
Although she had written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905 (under thenom de plumeof Osceola), her real début took place in 1934 with the publication ofSeven Gothic Tales, written in English under her pen-name.Out of Africa(1937) is an autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya. Most of her subsequent books were published in English and Danish simultaneously, includingWinter's Tales(1942) andThe Angelic Avengers(1946), under the name of Pierre Andrézol. Among her other collections of stories areLast Tales(1957),Anecdotes of Destiny(1958),Shadows on the Grass(1960) andEhrengard(1963).
Baroness Blixen died in Rungsted in 1962.
Recenzii
A
work
of
sincere
power
...
a
fine
lyrical
study
of
life
in
East
Africa
A compelling story of passion and a movingly poetic tribute to a lost land
With its lyrical and luminous picture of Kenya, it launched a million tourist trails
A compelling story of passion and a movingly poetic tribute to a lost land
With its lyrical and luminous picture of Kenya, it launched a million tourist trails