Karen Blixen Boeken

Verhalen over het leven op een koffieplantage in Kenya in de jaren '20.

In een klein Duits vorstendom zorgt een prinsenkind dat te vroeg geboren dreigt te worden, rond 1840 voor verwikkelingen.

Tweeëntwintig korte reisverhalen en -fragmenten door bekende en onbekende, meest buitenlandse schrijfsters.

Bloemlezing van veertien verhalen van binnen- en buitenlandse auteurs over woestijnen.

In this book, the author of *Seven Gothic Tales* recounts her life on a plantation in Kenya, sharing the beauty of the Ngong Hills and the coffee trees in bloom. She describes her diverse guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, and the vibrant local festivals. The narrative includes encounters with majestic wildlife—lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, and buffaloes—as well as her bond with Lulu, a graceful little gazelle who became her companion. The Random House colophon first appeared in February 1927 on a pamphlet titled "Announcement Number One." Founders Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer had acquired the Modern Library two years prior. One day, while discussing publishing plans with illustrator Rockwell Kent, Cerf had the inspiration for the name "Random House," reflecting their approach to publishing. Kent quickly sketched the trademark, which has remained unchanged. Over the years, Random House has consistently aimed to publish high-quality books, embracing the spirit of randomness in their selections. This edition honors the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House and is set from the first American edition of 1937.

In her memoir, Out of Africa, and in short stories, Danish-born writer Dinesen evoked a timeless Africa distilled from her 18 years on a Kenya coffee plantation. This lovely-looking but ultimately shallow picture book, a tie-in with the film based on Out of Africa, splices excerpts from Dinesen's autobiographical writings, stories and letters with color photographs of Africa's land, people and wildlife. For readers familiar with her works, the album is pleasant enough, though readers expecting visual signs of today's real, changing, troubled Africa will be disappointed. In an almost apologetic introduction, Judith Thurman, Dinesen's biographer, notes that the writer was not a conservationist, enjoyed big game hunting and had paternalistic, feudal relationships with Africans. Nevertheless, Dinesen upheld the dignity and value of African culture, and her rhythmic prose captured the complex poetry of Africa's landscape.

Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote 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, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.

Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar.Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934, this collection is shot through with themes of love and desire - from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time, to the Count whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels, and Lincoln Forsner, an Englishman whose search for a woman he met in a brothel leads him into many strange adventures.