Listed by Modern Library as one of the greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. Basis for the film directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, which went on to win seven Academy Awards. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest works of nonfiction of the twentieth century. Out of Africa reads like a collection of stories in which she adheres to no strict chronology, gives no explanation of the facts of her life, and apologizes for nothing.
After the plantation failed, she returned to Europe and began to write under the pen name Isak Dinesen.
A superior example.įrom 1914 to 1931, Danish aristocrat Baroness Karen Blixen owned and operated a coffee plantation in Kenya. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a small tear and light shelfwear. The film's focus is the author's romance with the pilot, which is small part of this narrative, although his death coincides with the sale of the farm and her departure from (British.
At one point, Blixen wants to put an injured native boy 'out of his misery' like a suffering farm animal. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of. 2/5: So beautifully written, so beautifully read, and so very, very racist. Item Number: 4186įirst American edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya.
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