Out of Africa: and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen

Out of Africa: and Shadows on the Grass

Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen

480 pages first pub 1937 (editions)

nonfiction classics memoir reflective slow-paced
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Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to ma...

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Moods

adventurous 70%
reflective 70%
informative 40%
emotional 30%
inspiring 30%
challenging 20%
hopeful 10%
relaxing 10%
sad 10%

Pace

slow 60%
medium 40%

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