Shadows on the Grass

Informationen zum Autor Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who 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. Karen Blixen (17th April 1885 - 7th September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish, English and French, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen married her cousin Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke in 1914 and moved with him to Kenya where they set up a coffee plantation. They divorced in 1921 and Blixen remained in Kenya for another ten years recording her experiences in her best-known work, Out of Africa . In 1931 Blixen returned to Denmark where she would live until her death in 1962. Klappentext Includes four stories that illuminate the author's love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. Zusammenfassung Includes four stories that illuminate the author's love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Blixen, Blixen Karen, Isak Dinesen
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.10.1990
• EAN: 9780140180435
• ISBN: 978-0-14-018043-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary