Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen

Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen

nonfiction classics memoir emotional reflective slow-paced

399 pages | first published 1937

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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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reflective 81%
adventurous 62%
informative 50%
emotional 46%
inspiring 37%
sad 18%
challenging 15%
hopeful 15%
lighthearted 12%
relaxing 12%
funny 9%
mysterious 9%
dark 6%
tense 3%

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fast 5%

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