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Overview

With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.

A reissue of the book that inspired the critically acclaimed movie version. Set in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen's years in Africa--together with Shadows on the Grass.

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John Updike
Her main memoir, ''Out of Africa,'' published in 1937, has been called the greatest pastoral romance of modern times....Enter a deliciously described world of sharply painted, dramatically costumed heroes and heroines posing, with many a spectacular gesture and eloquent aria, in magnificent landscapes maintained by invisible hands as a kind of huge stage set....hough Isak Dinesen's leisurely and ornate anecdotes, which she furnishes with just enough historical touches to make the stage firm, have something in them of the visionary and the artificial, they are not escapist. From the sweeping flood of the first story to the casual and savage murder of the last, they face pain and loss with the brisk familiarity of one who has amply known both, and force us to face them, too. Far from hollow and devoid of a moral, the tales insistently strive to inculcate a moral stance....Intoxication figures frequently in Isak Dinesen's work, and mercilessness was part of the storyteller's art as she construed it: the story must pursue its end without undue compassion for its characters. Combat lies closer than compassion to the secret of ''Seven Gothic Tales,'' and its exhilaration is their contagious mood. -- New York Times

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780679724759
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 10/28/1989
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 480
  • Sales rank: 149,448
  • Series: Vintage International Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.16 (w) x 7.99 (h) x 0.96 (d)

Table of Contents

1. Kamante and Lulu
The Ngong Farm 3
A Native Child 21
The Savage in the Immigrant's House 40
A Gazelle 61
2. A Shooting Accident on the Farm
The Shooting Accident 81
Riding in the Reserve 94
Wamai 105
Wanyangerri 120
A Kikuyu Chief 136
3. Visitors to the Farm
Big Dances 153
A Visitor from Asia 165
The Somali Women 170
Old Knudsen 181
A Fugitive Rests on the Farm 189
Visits of Friends 198
The Noble Pioneer 205
Wings 217
4. From an Immigrant's Notebook
The Wild Came to the Aid of the Wild 239
The Fireflies 240
The Roads of Life 241
Esa's Story 243
The lguana 246
Farah and the Merchant of Venice 248
The Elite of Bournemouth 250
Of Pride 250
The Oxen 251
Of the Two Races 254
A War-Time Safari 255
The Swaheli Numeral System 262
"I Will Not Let Thee Go Except Thou Bless Me" 263
The Eclipse of the Moon 265
Natives and Verse 265
Of the Millennium 266
Kitosch's Story 267
Some African Birds 272
Pania 275
Esa's Death 277
Of Natives and History 280
The Earthquake 283
George 284
Kejiko 285
The Giraffes Go to Hamburg 286
In the Menagerie 289
Fellow-Travellers 292
The Naturalist and the Monkeys 293
Karomenya 295
Pooran Singh 298
A Strange Happening 300
The Parrot 303
5. Farewell to the Farm
Hard Times 307
The Death of Kinanjui 320
The Grave in the Hills 329
Farah and I Sell Out 347
Farewell 364
Shadows on the Grass 373

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  • Posted August 8, 2011

    Anon

    A beautiful trip to an africa that once was.

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  • Posted April 27, 2009

    A view to the past

    This grouping of stories pictures an Africa long lost, and a whole time long lost. Dinesen has a lyrical style of writing that transcends the lack of structure. At the bottom, she is an episodic writer with occasional flashes of brilliant insight and a flair for description. Anyone who has seen the movie will benefit greatly from seeing the basis from which it evolved. While not "light" reading, it is a journey worth taking none-the-less.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 3, 2000

    An African Safari

    I read this book as an application project for Honors 9 Geography. The helpful parts in this book was the quotes for the five themes of Geography. The Native people made Place Cultural very easy to understand. I liked that there aren't short little chapters in the book, but instead units in each chapter. I learned alot about Africa, the Native people, and the culture. Dinesen made this book seem real, which it was, I was always seeing pictures in my mind while I was reading. I feel that Out Of Africa was at my reading level and was challenging also. I would recommend this book to people who like to read for fun and if you like long books. The book didn't hold my attention very much because of the length.

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