Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen with Karen Blixen

336 pages first pub 1937 (editions)

nonfiction classics memoir emotional 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

reflective 81%
adventurous 55%
emotional 40%
informative 39%
inspiring 27%
sad 18%
relaxing 17%
challenging 12%
funny 9%
lighthearted 9%
hopeful 8%
dark 6%
mysterious 4%
tense 1%

Pace

slow 58%
medium 34%
fast 6%

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