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Winter's Tales by Isak Dinesen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65If one theme unifies the 11 tales collected here, it is that of longing. Written after her return from Kenya and during the dark days of the Nazi occupation, they derive their themes and locales from... -
Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Karen Blixen,... -
Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth and humanity these four... -
The Angelic Avengers by Isak Dinesen
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted, and London is a hostile place for two young girls without a home. Bound together by poverty, grief and their shared years at school, they set out... -
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37Romantics, 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... -
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen 9780679736417
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Babette's Feast and Other Stories by Isak Dinesen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65These 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... -
Isak Dinesen: The Life And Imagination Of A Seducer by Olga Anastasia Pelensky 9780821410080
Booksplease Price: $37.69Born into a Victorian Danish family, Karen Christentze Dinesen married her second cousin, a high-spirited and philandering baron, and moved to Kenya where she ran a coffee plantation, painted, and... -
A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's Babette's Feast by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375376754
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $12.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375376754Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 42I -
A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375385947
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A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's Sorrow-Acre by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375388535
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Danish Literature: Saxo Grammaticus to Isak Dinesen by Nancy S. Reinhardt 9780976492535
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $20.81A catalog of an exhibition at Houghton Library in 1986 of Danish items, ranging from 1514 to 1942, from Houghton’s collection, as well as items on loan from David P. Wheatland, Janet Jurist, and the... -
A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's Sailor-Boy's Tale by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375387378
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Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. Karen Blixen was forced to... -
White Hunters by Brian Herne 9780805067361
Booksplease Price: $31.52East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: the sight of a charging rhino goes directly to the heart; the limitless landscape of bony highlands, desert and moutains is, as Isak Dinesen... -
The A to Z of Scandinavian Literature and Theater by Jan Sjovik 9780810868434
Booksplease Price: $68.61The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse... -
Women's Writing in Exile by Angela Ingram 9780807842515
RRP: $61.64Booksplease Price: $51.26Using a broad range of methodologies, the contributors examine the physical, sociopolitical, canonical, and psychological kinds of exile that women writers in Western culture have endured over the... -
I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51'Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I drive with my dogs up to the Mukutan, to watch the sun setting behind... -
Salt in Their Veins: Conversations with Coastal Mainers by Charlie Wing 9781684750818
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $23.02According to acclaimed writer Isak Dinesen, "the cure for anything is salt water," and most coastal Mainers would likely agree. The distinct sense of place one gets in Maine is instilled at early age... -
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen 9780241951439
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is the lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya that launched a million tourist trails, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'I had a farm in... -
Hannah Arendt: Life Is a Narrative by Julia Kristeva 9780802035219
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $29.02In this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt's work: her understanding of... -
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A Life of Colette: Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman 9780747548430 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.23Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was this century's first modern woman. She arrived in Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake and brilliant literary impressario, Willy, who... -
Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times by Phillip E. Wegner 9781517908867
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.13An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times What does any particular theory allow us to do? What is the value of doing so? And who benefits?... -
A Balthus Notebook by Guy Davenport
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $9.06In his 1989 book on Balthus-the storied and controversial artist who worked in Paris throughout the twentieth century-Guy Davenport gives one of the most nuanced, literary, and compelling readings of... -
Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'That word, "vacation," makes me sweat.' Coco Chanel on taking a break'You must do it irregardless, or it will eat its way out of you.' Zora Neale Hurston on writing'One has to choose between the... -
Fantastic Tales by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $19.30Lawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, among many other awards, has translated into English these Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love,... -
Inga: Kennedy's Great Love, Hitler's Perfect Beauty, and J. Edgar Hoover's Prime Suspect by Scott Farris 9781493017553
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $30.71Inga Arvad was the great love of President John F. Kennedy's life, and also Adolf Hitler's special guest at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She was an actress, a foreign correspondent, a popular Washington... -
We Have Never Lived on Earth by Kasia Van Schaik
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.07Kasia Van Schaik's debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa...