The Life And Destiny Of Isak Dinesen

Author : Clara Svendsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226469164
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Destiny of Isak Dinesen written by Clara Svendsen and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isak Dinesen was the pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen of Rungstedlund (1885-1962). A storyteller of originality and distinction, she spent the first part of life in British East Africa, from 1914 to 1931. Her book "Out of Africa" records many of her experiences in the colony where she operated a coffee plantation. During her lifetime Isak Dinesen was reluctant to reveal to the public the many photographs which chronicle her fascinating and often tragic life. Among the more than two hundred photographs collected for this handsome picture album are glimpses of the author's aristocratic ancestors and childhood in Denmark, striking photographs of her beloved companions in Kenya, and later more familiar portraits by Cecil Beaton and Peter Beard. This book serves to illustrate the characters and settings of Isak Dinesen's fiction and provide additional insights into her enigmatic personality.

Author : Judith Thurman
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250857104
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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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 : Thorkild Bjørnvig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788777630583
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen written by Thorkild Bjørnvig and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isak Dinesen's Africa written by Isak Dinesen and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1985 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated.

Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443432954
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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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 : Isak Dinesen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226153117
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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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 : 4.30/5 ( download)

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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 : 4.91/5 ( download)

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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 : 4.61/5 ( download)

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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 : Karen Blixen
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Tales written by Karen Blixen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Last Tales" by Karen Blixen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.