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...dozen stories in this new collection may be the literary testament of one of the most skilled but least prolific writers of the 20th century. Isak Dinesen is the pen name of Danish-born Baroness Karen Blixen, who has produced only four other books (Seven Gothic Tales, Out of Africa, Winter's Tales, The Angelic Avengers) in her 72 years. She works, for the most part, in the narrow and demanding field of the Gothic story-a romantic form requiring a controlled mixture of the grotesque and the sublime, where plot tragically turns on the concept of honor...
Died. Baroness Eva Dickson von Blixen-Finecke, 30, British sportswoman and air enthusiast; in an automobile accident; near Baghdad, Iraq. The young Baroness, second wife of Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, hunted lions in Africa, drove racing cars in Europe, in 1935 went to Ethiopia to ''watch...
AFRICAN HUNTER-Bror von Blixen-Finecke-Knopf...
...best of the three is Out of Africa, by the author of Seven Gothic Tales, an eerie, distinguished best-seller of 1934. It was later revealed that Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of the Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke, a slender, pale, large-eyed, middle-aged Danish woman whose divorced husband is a well-known big-game hunter, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a distant cousin of King Christian of Denmark. Married in 1914, they went out to British East Africa, where her family bought them a 6,000-acre coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, capital of Kenya...
...comparison with his former wife's volume, 50-year-old Baron von Blixen-Finecke's African Hunter is little more than a handbook for big-game hunters. A professional guide to millionaire sportsmen, he enumerates his choice kills, gives bag limits, cost ($2,000 per month per person), devotes his longest section to a hunting trip with the Prince of Wales-"perhaps the toughest sportsman of them all." Except for an occasional game beater. Baron Blixen-Finecke does not care much for natives. Now married to an adventurous, pretty, 29-year-old Englishwoman, he remembers his first wife...