Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen with Karen Blixen

389 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 60%
emotional 41%
informative 41%
inspiring 28%
relaxing 18%
sad 16%
lighthearted 13%
challenging 11%
hopeful 11%
funny 10%
dark 5%
mysterious 5%
tense 1%

Pace

slow 58%
medium 33%
fast 8%

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