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Shadows on the Grass

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140180435

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 8mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 112g

  • RRP: £8.99

Shadows on the Grass

Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. The first three were written in the 1950s and the last, 'Echoes from the Hills', was written especially for this volume in the summer of 1960 when the author was in her seventies. In all they provide a moving final chapter to her African reminiscences.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140180435

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 8mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 112g

  • RRP: £8.99

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About the Author

Isak Dinesen

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.

Isak Dinesen

Karen Blixen

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.

Karen Blixen

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