"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 ...
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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
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 474 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 80025856 Type of material Book Personal name Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962. Uniform title Breve fra Afrika. English Main title Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 / Isak Dinesen [i.e. K. Blixen]; edited for the Rungstedlund Foundation by Frans Lasson; translated by Anne Born. Published/Created Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Description xli, 474 p., [28] leaves of plates: ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 0226153096 LC classification PT8175. B545 Z5313 1981 Related names Lasson, Frans. LC Subjects Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962--Correspondence. Authors, Danish--20th century--Correspondence. Notes "Originally published in two volumes as Breve fra Afrika 1914-24 and Breve fra Afrika 1925-31." Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 839.8/1372 B Language code engdan
