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Author : Frans Lasson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (472 download)
Download or read book The Life and Destiny of Isak Dinesen written by Frans Lasson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith Thurman
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250857104
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Isak Dinesen written by Judith Thurman and published by Picador. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Thurman’s brilliant, National Book Award–winning biography of Isak Dinesen—now with a new foreword by the author A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Dinesen’s magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established her as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman’s classic work explores Dinesen’s life. Until the appearance of this book, the life and art of Isak Dinesen have been—as Dinesen herself wrote of two lovers in a tale—“a pair of locked caskets, each containing the key to the other.” Judith Thurman has provided the master key to them both.
Author : Frans Lasson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (483 download)
Download or read book The Life and Destiny of Isak Dinesen written by Frans Lasson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frans Lasson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (472 download)
Download or read book The Life and Destiny of Isak Dinesen written by Frans Lasson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443432954
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Out Of Africa written by Isak Dinesen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Out of Africa, author Isak Dinesen takes a wistful and nostalgic look back on her years living in Africa on a Kenyan coffee plantation. Recalling the lives of friends and neighbours—both African and European—Dinesen provides a first-hand perspective of colonial Africa. Through her obvious love of both the landscape and her time in Africa, Dinesen’s meditative writing style deeply reflects the themes of loss as her plantation fails and she returns to Europe. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.
Author : Frans Lasson (ed)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (781 download)
Download or read book The Life and Destiny of Isak Dinesen. Collected and Edited by Frans Lasson; Text by Clara Svendsen written by Frans Lasson (ed) and published by . This book was released on with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226153117
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 written by Isak Dinesen and published by . This book was released on 1984-04 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written to her family, these letters recount the failure of Dinesen's marriage, the financial collapse of her husband's coffee plantation, and her experiences in Kenya
Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0679743332
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard written by Isak Dinesen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the classic “Babette’s Feast,” a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares 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. Hauntingly evoked and sensuously realized, the five stories read and novella collected here and have the hold of “fairy stories read in childhood . . . of dreams . . . and of our life as dreams.” (The New York Times)
Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014196149X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Anecdotes of Destiny written by Isak Dinesen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-04-26 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. There is also a real-life Prospero and his Ariel in ‘Tempests’, a mysterious pearl-fisher in ‘The Diver’ and a brief, tragic encounter in ‘The Ring’. All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last to be written by Isak Dinesen, and show her as a master of short fiction.
Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226153063
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Daguerreotypes and Other Essays written by Isak Dinesen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Isak Dinesen . . . had an original approach to life that permeated all her work. She loved storytelling, with the result that most of her essays are quasi-narratives, which proceed not from major to minor premise but from one anecdote to another as the way of making concrete whatever idea she is considering. Her work is a delight and at times a marvel."—The New Yorker "Through these daguerreotypes we begin to understand other periods, the renunciations of World War I, the purpose of houses and mansions, of ritual ceremonials, such as tatooing. We are given a fresh and vivid view of the women's movement . . . which urges that what our 'small society' needs beyond human beings who have demonstrated what they can do, is people who are. 'Indeed, our own time,' she wrote in 1953, 'can be said to need a revision from doing to being.' She demonstrated it in her own work and craft, with courage and with dignity. This collection is as real as a gallery of old daguerreotypes, moving and unfaded. The work, as Hannah Arendt says, of a wise woman."—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times "These essays . . . have the flavor of good conversation: humorous, easy, personal but not oppressive, the distillation of reading, thought, and experience. Their subjects are of surprisingly current interest. We need make no concessions to the past, need not set our watches back to 'historical.' Isak Dinesen was not a faddish thinker. . . . 'In history it is always the human element that has a chance for eternal life,' Dinesen remarks, and she gives these essays their chance."—Penelope Mesic, Chicago
Author : Frantz Leander Hansen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Aristocratic Universe of Karen Blixen written by Frantz Leander Hansen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Blixen's works are explored in the light of a passionate insistence on living out a double nature of the divine and the demonic. The 'aristocratic' is examined as her depiction of a conduct of life that is faithful to destiny: the aristocratic viewpoint is in tune with eternity, and places no obstructive morality between self and life. Vitality has its source in direct access to the ocean of inexhaustible opportunities with which life presents us. The 'world' of Africa, for example, plays a key role as the consummate illustration of an aristocratic culture. The aesthetic guidelines for literary form (as well as art) as advocated by KB are discussed, and her view of art is similarly defined and explained as 'aristocratic'. Her private correspondence (including the recently published Karen Blixen in Denmark: Letters, 1931-62) is drawn upon to shed new light on her life and work.
Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Seven Gothic Tales written by Isak Dinesen and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961473
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Angelic Avengers written by Isak Dinesen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-11-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted, and London is a hostile place for two young girls without a home. Bound together by poverty, grief and their shared years at school, they set out to make a future for themselves in new surroundings. They are adopted by the austere, puritanical Reverend Pennhallow and his wife, and in their large, gloomy house they become immersed in study. But, after a chain of disturbing events, it does not take long before they realize that the cleric and his wife are not all they seem to be ...
Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479452467
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Last Tales written by Isak Dinesen and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Last Tales" is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Karen Blixen wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen, 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, allnight conversation between a boyking, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.
Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961465
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Shadows on the Grass written by Isak Dinesen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1990-10-25 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9780140096194
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Ehrengard written by Isak Dinesen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1986 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Brantly
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034282
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Understanding Isak Dinesen written by Susan Brantly and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadows on the Grass, Winter's Tales, Last Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny, and Ehrengard, Brantly explores the clues, details, and subplots in texts that critics often describe as puzzles and labyrinths. Brantly reveals the thought and care that Dinesen devoted to the construction of her stories, her expansive knowledge of world literature, and the great pleasure awaiting readers as they unravel the mysteries embedded in her texts."--BOOK JACKET.
