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Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Isak 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... -
Winter's Tales by Isak Dinesen
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46If 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Little 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,... -
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.98Romantics, 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... -
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen 9780679600213
RRP: €23.21Booksplease Price: €19.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600213Author Isak DinesenFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Babette's Feast and Other Stories by Isak Dinesen
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46These 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 and the Engendering of Narrative by Susan Hardy Aiken
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €47.36Although Isak Dinesen has been widely acclaimed as a popular writer, her work has received little sustained critical attention. In this revisionist study, Susan Hardy Aiken takes up the complex... -
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman 9781250857095
RRP: €24.99Booksplease Price: €20.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250857095Author Judith ThurmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint -
Isak Dinesen: The Life And Imagination Of A Seducer by Olga Anastasia Pelensky 9780821410080
Booksplease Price: €33.05Born 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... -
Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy by Marianna Torgovnick 9780226808376
Booksplease Price: €35.97This work investigates Westerners' profound attraction to cultures that they call "primitive". Marianna Torgovnick explores the stories of Carl Jung, Isak Dinesen, D.H. Lawrence and Georgia O'Keefe... -
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46In 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... -
Grand Finales: The Creative Longevity of Women Artists Susan Gubar 9781324065647
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.48Despite the losses generally associated with ageing, quite a few writers, painters, sculptors, musicians and dancers have managed to extend and repurpose their creative energies. In Grand Finales,... -
White Hunters by Brian Herne 9780805067361
Booksplease Price: €28.01East 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... -
Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex, and Class in Kenya by Carolyn Martin Shaw 9780816625253
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.78In Kenyan colonialist imagery, the Kikuyu were vilified as deceitful servants while the Maasai were romanticized as noble savages in a fashion similar to American representation of the Black slave... -
Journeys from Scandinavia: Travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 1840-2000 by Elisabeth Oxfeldt 9780816656356
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71For all of the scholarship done on postcolonial literatures, little has been applied to Scandinavian writing. Yet, beginning with the onset of tourism beyond Scandinavia in the 1840s, a compelling... -
The Eleventh House: Memoirs by Hudson Strode 9780817358907
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23"Every place I visited," says Hudson Strode, "was like a surprise package to be opened, and I untied the strings with high expectations." Reading The Eleventh House: Memoirs is like going to a party... -
Outcasts and Angels Edna Edith Sayers 9781563685392
Booksplease Price: €39.85More than thirty years after the groundbreaking publication of "Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature", Edna Edith Sayers re-envisions the anthology for the twenty-first... -
Artificial Africas Ruth Mayer 9781584651925
Booksplease Price: €38.44"Africa is an artificial entity," notes Ruth Mayer, "invented and conceived by colonialism." In this wide-ranging study, Mayer explores the ways in which Western, and especially American, popular... -
I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.22'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... -
Hannah Arendt: Life Is a Narrative by Julia Kristeva 9780802035219
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €25.78In 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... -
Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Carson McCullers 9780299164447
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.96More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare , will be published for the first time. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of... -
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen 9780241951439
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Karen 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... -
A Talent for Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition by Barbara L. Bellows 9780807131633
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €38.50Josephine Pinckney (1895-1957) was an award-winning, best-selling author whose work critics frequently compared to that of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and Isak Dinesen. Her flair for storytelling and... -
A Life of Colette: Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman 9780747548430
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66Sidonie-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... -
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A Life of Colette: Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman 9780747548430 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €2.87Sidonie-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... -
Peter Beard. The End of the Game Peter Beard 9783754402719
Booksplease Price: €114.43"The deeper the white man went into Africa, the faster the life flowed out of it, off the plains and out of the bush...vanishing in acres of trophies and hides and carcasses." - Peter Beard A... -
Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters by Phyllis Rose
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.71From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists Alfred Stieglitz... -
Dishing it Out: In Search of the Restaurant Experience by Robert Appelbaum 9781861898074
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €41.92In this ground-breaking work, Robert Appelbaum travels through time, space and the annals of literature and history, asking some basic questions. What is a restaurant, for example, and what and who... -
Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times by Phillip E. Wegner
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71An 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?... -
Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times by Phillip E. Wegner 9781517908850
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €86.52An 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: €10.65Booksplease Price: €8.04In 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... -
This New & Poisonous Air by Adam McOmber 9781934414514
Booksplease Price: €12.61She admits she is pleased when the new placard is raised, "Madame Tussaud's House of Wax." She stands in the crowd with Francois at her side. He leans close enough to touch her ear with the fringe... -
Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'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... -
Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman by Arnold Weinstein 9780691148243
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €39.54Northern Arts is a magnificent and provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. With intellectual power and deep emotional insights, writer and critic Arnold Weinstein guides us... -
Fantastic Tales by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €17.08Lawrence 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: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.27Inga 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... -
Inga: Kennedy's Great Love, Hitler's Perfect Beauty, and J. Edgar Hoover's Prime Suspect by Scott Farris
Booksplease Price: €19.85Inga 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: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.83Kasia 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...