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...Advise and Consent, Drury (1) 3. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (4) 4. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (3) 5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (5) 6. The Dean's Watch, Goudge (6) 7. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes (7) 8. Shadows in the Grass, Dinesen 9. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (9) 10. The Lovely Ambition, Chase...
Shadows in the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. Crystalline recollections, by Denmark's greatly gifted author, of a decade (1921-31) spent in Kenya; her theme, written as an elegy, is the relation of master and servant...
Shadows on the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. This aristocratic Danish author of superior Gothic romances has fashioned a nonfictional still life, elegiac in mood, diamantine in craft, of her past as a coffee planter in Kenya...
Shadows in the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. This aristocratic Danish author of superior Gothic romances has fashioned a nonfictional still life, elegiac in mood, diamantine in craft, of her past as a coffee planter in Kenya...
Furiously, gallantly and without illusions, the baroness has long been at work on a projected 2,000-page Arabian Nights fantasia of a novel to be called Albondocani: "I hope to finish it just before I die, but only just" Recalling the meaning of her name, Isak Dinesen feels she has had the gift of laughter, and something more, "the pure joy of living, a sort of triumph simply because one exists." For the rest, she is content to quote the poet Landor...