Background
Karen Dinesen was born on April, 17 in 1885, in the manor house of Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen (Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark).
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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.
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1961
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Letters From Africa is one of the five books on which the motion picture "Out of Africa" is based. "It is a new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose romantic fiction made her an international success."
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1984
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Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and Poe.
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1991
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In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.
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1992
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In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses. A despairing author abandons his wife, but in the course of a long night's wandering, he learns love's true value and returns to her, only to find her a different woman than the one he left. A landowner, seeking to prove a principle, inadvertently exposes the ferocity of mother love. A wealthy young traveler melts the hauteur of a lovely woman by masquerading as her aged and loyal servant. Shimmering and haunting, Dinesen's Winter's Tales transport us, through their author's deft guidance of our desire to imagine, to the mysterious place where all stories are born.
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1993
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In the classic “Babette’s Feast,” a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares a sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of grace. In “The Immortal Story,” a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told sailors’ tale into reality for a young man and woman. And in the magnificent novella Ehrengard, Dinesen tells of the powerful yet restrained rapport between a noble Wagnerian beauty and rakish artist.
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1993
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Isak Dinesen and the land and people she loved are nowhere so real and compelling as in Longing for Darkness, written by Dinesen's majordomo, Kamante, and now boasting a smart new cover. Readers familiar with Out of Africa may recognize many of the enchanting stories. These celebrated tales and others are retold here from Kamante's perspective and are enhanced with his own drawings and letters, Dinesen's words and snapshots, and photographs by Peter Beard. Writes Beard, "Over a period of 12 years, as if divesting himself of his possessions, Kamante put down the extra dimensions of truth which are at the heart of Out of Africa."
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1998
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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 of a lifetime.
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2015
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Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; "The Caryatids," an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy's spell; and three tales of winter, including "Converse at Night in Copenhagen," a drunken, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.
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Karen Dinesen was born on April, 17 in 1885, in the manor house of Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen (Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark).
In 1902, she attended Charlotte Sode's art school in Copenhagen before continuing her studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Viggo Johansen from 1903 to 1906.
Karen Dinesen stayed on in Kenya, managing a coffee plantation of considerable size until the year 1931 when droughts, grasshoppers, fevers, and falling coffee prices forced her to sell the farm.
In Out of Africa (1937), believed by many to be her finest work, Dinesen drew a vivid picture of her life in Kenya.
"After her return to Denmark she continued writing stories; her first collection, the now-classic Seven Gothic Tales, appeared in 1934.
Like most of the following books, it was first written in English and then translated into Danish.
A second volume, Winter's Tales, appeared in 1942.
In 1944 the Danish public was mystified by the appearance of an allegorical Gothic novel, The Angelic Avengers, by a Frenchman, Pierre Andrézel. Andrezel.
The mystery was solved when Baroness Blixen admitted authorship. In spite of old age and illness Dinesen did not cease writing.
Last Tales (1957) and Anecdotes of Destiny (1958), as well as the African sketches in Shadows on the Grass (1961), testified to her undiminished talents.
Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales, 11 stories previously unpublished in English, was published in 1977.
Dinesen's fantastic tales project a world in which art and life are closely interwoven.
(In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of th...)
1993(In the classic “Babette’s Feast,” a mysterious Frenchwoma...)
1993(Isak Dinesen and the land and people she loved are nowher...)
1998(These five rich, witty and magical stories from the autho...)
2015(Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the fir...)
1991(Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in ...)
1961(A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the o...)
1995(In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a tr...)
1992(Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales th...)
(Letters From Africa is one of the five books on which the...)
1984(A portrait of the rarely seen land of East Africa.)
1985(Danish and English Edition.)
1975(Shadows on the Grass.)
1989In 1914 she married Baron Blixen and went to live in British East Africa, on a coffee plantation. She was divorced in 1921 and took over the management of the plantation where she lived until 1931 when falling coffee prices forced her to return to Denmark.