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Anecdotes of Destiny by Isak Dinesen
Category: Fiction
Includes five stories from the author of "Out of Africa".
Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen
Category: Fiction
'And it happened when Martine or Philippa spoke to Babette that they would get no answers, and would wonder if she had even heard what they said ...Or she would sit immovable on the three-legged kitchen chair, her strong hands in her lap and her dark eyes wide open, as enigmatical and fatal as a Pythia ...Show more
Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen / Karen Blixen
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions ar ...Show more
Babette's Feast and Other Stories by Isak Dinesen
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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 ...Show more
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen; Karen Blixen
Category: Romance | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.' 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. A new series of twenty distincti ...Show more
Out of Africa by DINESEN, ISAK
Category: Travel | Series: Modern Library
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 b ...Show more
Out of Africa (Penguin pocket classics) by Isak Dinesen; Karen Blixen
Category: Classic | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
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.'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.'From the moment Karen Blixen arriv ...Show more
Out of Africa ; and, Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Category: Biography Memoir
Set in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen's years in Africa--together with Shadows on the Grass.
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Category: Biography
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Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven 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 t ...Show more