- Hardcover: 516 pages
- Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (Feb 1 1982)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0226153096
- ISBN-13: 978-0226153094
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.7 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 794 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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#1,893,553 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #94 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Ethnic & National > Scandinavian
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"Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction . . . made her an international success and perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. . . . [These letters] contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir Out of Africa (1937). They also reveal her as a highly intelligent and sensitive analyst of a strange new world."—Bruce Allen, Christian Science Monitor
"Letters from Africa is literary gold, 24 karat."—Alden Whitman, Boston Globe
"Letters from Africa is literary gold, 24 karat."—Alden Whitman, Boston Globe
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A diary of letters,
By "daisy9438" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 (Paperback)
In her own words Isak Dinesen gives you a peak into life on her beloved farm. Her impressions of her new world, her hopes, triumphs and failures. Kinanjui, Farah, Kamante, Denys, Delamere characters that one came to love in her tales from "Out of Africa" are all in these letters. It was also fascinating to see from reading the letters how her writing style evolved. A style that would later mature into the legacy of work she would leave behind. A must for any collecter of this amazing woman.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Like reading a personal diary,
This review is from: Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 (Paperback)
There's no better way of getting to know the real Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen than by reading her Letters. Blixen shares her life with you a letter at a time, and in such rich detail that one feels a bit inclined to purchase a ticket to Kenya and appear on her veranda for tea!Blixen's deep love for "her people" finally comes out in its truest sense in that she considered the African natives her soul mates. The letters to Ingeborg, Aunt Bess, and brother Tommy, reveal (to me at least) that Blixen felt a greater kinship and sense of mutual acceptance with her "black skinned brother" than she did with her Danish relatives. "Letters From Africa" is essential reading for any Dinesen fan.
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A woman of the future,
By Heidi Klavzar (Ljubljana, Slovenia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 (Paperback)
This is a very powerfull book, which gives good insight into the mind and soul of Karen Blixen. Compared to her own book "out of africa" you here have the "unprocessed" facts - she writes about her every day life on the farm, happy things as well as sad things in the form of letters to her loved ones. Very different from the intrepetation of the same facts in her book "Out of Africa". Read it!
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