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<p><P>In this book, the author of <i>Seven Gothic Tales</i> gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives&#58; of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom&#58; of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her&#58; of primitive festivals&#58; of big game that were her near neighbors&#151;lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes&#151;and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.<br><br>The Random House colophon made its debut in February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called &quot;Announcement Number One.&quot; Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company's founders, had acquired the Modern Library from publishers Boni and Liveright two years earlier. One day, their friend the illustrator Rockwell Kent stopped by their office. Cerf later recalled, &quot;Rockwell was sitting at my desk facing Donald, and we were talking about doing a few books on the side, when suddenly I got an inspiration and said, 'I've got the name for our publishing house. We just said we were go-ing to

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Author

Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen

Publisher

The Modern Library

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9788087888360

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, History

Rating

3.96 / 5 (22,402 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14