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. 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, 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: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories