Out of Africa (Pocket Penguins) - Softcover

Blixen, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241262119 ISBN 13: 9780241262115

Publisher: Penguin Classic, 2016

Synopsis

'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.' In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written, Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century, and the love affair that changed her life. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

About this title

About the Author:

Karen Blixen (17th April 1885 - 7th September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish, English and French, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen married her cousin Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke in 1914 and moved with him to Kenya where they set up a coffee plantation. They divorced in 1921 and Blixen remained in Kenya for another ten years recording her experiences in her best-known work Out of Africa. In 1931 Blixen returned to Denmark where she would live until her death in 1962.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classic
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0241262119
• ISBN 13: 9780241262115
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 400