Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.\ \ \ A reissue of the book that inspired the critically acclaimed movie version. Set in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen's years in Africa--together with Shadows on the Grass.\
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With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. John Updike Her main memoir, ''Out of Africa,'' published in 1937, has been called the greatest pastoral romance of modern times....Enter a deliciously described world of sharply painted, dramatically costumed heroes and heroines posing, with many a spectacular gesture and eloquent aria, in magnificent landscapes maintained by invisible hands as a kind of huge stage set....hough Isak Dinesen's leisurely and ornate anecdotes, which she furnishes with just enough historical touches to make the stage firm, have something in them of the visionary and the artificial, they are not escapist. From the sweeping flood of the first story to the casual and savage murder of the last, they face pain and loss with the brisk familiarity of one who has amply known both, and force us to face them, too. Far from hollow and devoid of a moral, the tales insistently strive to inculcate a moral stance....Intoxication figures frequently in Isak Dinesen's work, and mercilessness was part of the storyteller's art as she construed it: the story must pursue its end without undue compassion for its characters. Combat lies closer than compassion to the secret of ''Seven Gothic Tales,'' and its exhilaration is their contagious mood. -- New York Times
1.Kamante and LuluThe Ngong Farm3A Native Child21The Savage in the Immigrant's House40A Gazelle612.A Shooting Accident on the FarmThe Shooting Accident81Riding in the Reserve94Wamai105Wanyangerri120A Kikuyu Chief1363.Visitors to the FarmBig Dances153A Visitor from Asia165The Somali Women170Old Knudsen181A Fugitive Rests on the Farm189Visits of Friends198The Noble Pioneer205Wings2174.From an Immigrant's NotebookThe Wild Came to the Aid of the Wild239The Fireflies240The Roads of Life241Esa's Story243The lguana246Farah and the Merchant of Venice248The Elite of Bournemouth250Of Pride250The Oxen251Of the Two Races254A War-Time Safari255The Swaheli Numeral System262"I Will Not Let Thee Go Except Thou Bless Me"263The Eclipse of the Moon265Natives and Verse265Of the Millennium266Kitosch's Story267Some African Birds272Pania275Esa's Death277Of Natives and History280The Earthquake283George284Kejiko285The Giraffes Go to Hamburg286In the Menagerie289Fellow-Travellers292The Naturalist and the Monkeys293Karomenya295Pooran Singh298A Strange Happening300The Parrot3035.Farewell to the FarmHard Times307The Death of Kinanjui320The Grave in the Hills329Farah and I Sell Out347Farewell364Shadows on the Grass373
\ John UpdikeHer main memoir, ''Out of Africa,'' published in 1937, has been called the greatest pastoral romance of modern times....Enter a deliciously described world of sharply painted, dramatically costumed heroes and heroines posing, with many a spectacular gesture and eloquent aria, in magnificent landscapes maintained by invisible hands as a kind of huge stage set....hough Isak Dinesen's leisurely and ornate anecdotes, which she furnishes with just enough historical touches to make the stage firm, have something in them of the visionary and the artificial, they are not escapist. From the sweeping flood of the first story to the casual and savage murder of the last, they face pain and loss with the brisk familiarity of one who has amply known both, and force us to face them, too. Far from hollow and devoid of a moral, the tales insistently strive to inculcate a moral stance....Intoxication figures frequently in Isak Dinesen's work, and mercilessness was part of the storyteller's art as she construed it: the story must pursue its end without undue compassion for its characters. Combat lies closer than compassion to the secret of ''Seven Gothic Tales,'' and its exhilaration is their contagious mood. -- New York Times\ \
