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SHADOWS ON THE GRASS, by Isak Dinesen. The author, who is Denmark's finest writer and one of the world's best, writes a dry, elegiac reminiscence of the years she spent from 1921 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. Miss Dinesen's principal theme is the feudal harmony of white master and black servant, making the book seem removed by centuries, not decades, from the present...
...Advise and Consent, Drury (2) / 4. To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee (3) / 5. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (6) / 6. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (5) / 7. Winnie Hie Pu, Milne / 8. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene 9. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes (7) / 10. Shadows on the Grass, Dinesen...
...Shadows on the Grass, Dinesen...
...Kenya coffee plantation, Danish-born Baroness Karen Blixen once beat back two lions with a bull whip, earned the affectionate appellation "Honorable Lioness." But in 1931, when the coffee market crumbled, she returned to her native land, assumed a name now known and respected throughout the literary world-Isak Dinesen. Last week at 75, the wispy (her weight: 70 lbs.) writer was honored with a statue of herself by California Sculptor Emile Norman. Depicting a wraithlike priestess with a lion and a bird, the work evoked the pre-Mau Mau Kenya that Isak Dinesen cannot forget. It was, as described...
...Shadows on the Grass, Dinesen...