Out of Africa

出版者:Modern Library

作者:Isak Dinesen

页数:416

出版时间:1992-9-5

价格:USD 22.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780679600213

丛书系列:Modern Library

具体描述

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.

The Random House colophon made its debut in February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called "Announcement Number One." Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company's founders, had acquired the Modern Library from publishers Boni and Liveright two years earlier. One day, their friend the illustrator Rockwell Kent stopped by their office. Cerf later recalled, "Rockwell was sitting at my desk facing Donald, and we were talking about doing a few books on the side, when suddenly I got an inspiration and said, 'I've got the name for our publishing house. We just said we were go-ing to publish a few books on the side at random. Let's call it Random House.' Donald liked the idea, and Rockwell Kent said, 'That's a great name. I'll draw your trademark.' So, sitting at my desk, he took a piece of paper and in five minutes drew Random House, which has been our colophon ever since." Throughout the years, the mission of Random House has remained consistent: to publish books of the highest quality, at random. We are proud to continue this tradition today.

This edition is set from the first American edition of 1937 and commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House.

作者简介

Karen Christence Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, Tania Blixen, Osceola, etc.

A Danish writer, who mixed in her work supernatural elements, aestheticism, and erotic undertones with an aristocratic view of life, Blixen always emphasized that she was a storyteller in the traditional, oral sense of the word. She drew her inspiration from the Bible, the Arabian Nights, the works of Homer, the Icelandic Sagas, and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, who was her great fellow countryman. She wrote in English and in Danish.

读后感

Isak Dinesen, lived in East Africa for almost twenty years making a living as the proprietor of a coffee plantation. Out of Africa is a memoir of her experiences there.Through the book she meanders through her life in no chronological order telling wonderfu...  

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用户评价

"in the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here i am, where i ought to be." 优雅的文字，白描式的英文，浓郁的怀旧情绪，无边无际的原始美。

高中时为了某个人读但最终记住却是KarenBlixen. The oxen is perpetually powerful.

因为深爱同名的电影而找书来看。书里并没有太多的爱情，有的只是她对非洲生活的点滴回忆。看似平淡如水的文字下面流淌着真挚的热爱与怀念。

this is just a maaaaarvelous book! never read one just as good. decide to read it all over again!

The love of woman and womanliness is a masculine characteristic，and the love of man and manliness is a feminine characteristic