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Karen Blixen

Born

in Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark

April 17, 1885

Died

September 07, 1962

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Karen Christentze Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, other pseudonyms: Tania Blixen, Osceola, etc.
A Danish writer, who mixed in her work supernatural elements, aestheticism, and erotic undertones with an aristocratic view of life, Blixen always emphasized that she was a storyteller in the traditional, oral sense of the word. She drew her inspiration from the Bible, the Arabian Nights, the works of Homer, the Icelandic Sagas, and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, who was her great fellow countryman. She wrote in English and in Danish.

Baroness Karen Blixen was born in Rungsted, Denmark, into a well-to-do patrician family. She was the daughter of Ingeborg Westenholz Dinesen, and the writer and ...more

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	Den udødelige historie by Karen Blixen, LA GRAPHIC DESIGN (Cover) 3.77 avg rating — 56 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drømmerne 4.03 avg rating — 40 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Om ægteskab 3.51 avg rating — 45 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Samlede Essays 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1985 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	OUT OF AFRICA 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Karen Blixen i Danmark: Breve 1931-62 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Danish Classics (Novellix in English #17-#20) by Karen Blixen, Henrik Pontoppidan, Herman Bang 3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Karneval og andre fortællinger by Karen Blixen, LA GRAPHIC DESIGN (Cover) 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Den odödliga historien 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1958	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Det ubeskrevne blad 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

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“Do you know a cure for me?"

"Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."

"Salt water?" I asked him.

"Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

tags: meaning-of-life

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“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

tags: adventure, africa, life

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March 2016 Revisit the Shelf Reread Poll

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 325 pages, 1962

25 votes, 12.0%

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages, 1951

18 votes, 8.7%

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 331 pages, 1911

18 votes, 8.7%

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 277 pages, 1953

17 votes, 8.2%

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 254 pages, 1890

17 votes, 8.2%

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, 146 pages, 1962

15 votes, 7.2%

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 200 pages, 1899

14 votes, 6.7%

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages. 1935

14 votes, 6.7%

1984 by George Orwell, 268 pages, 1949

13 votes, 6.3%

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 453 pages, 1961

12 votes, 5.8%

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages, 1960

11 votes, 5.3%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 320 pages, 1984

10 votes, 4.8%

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 786 pages, 1844

7 votes, 3.4%

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov, 212 pages, 1934

7 votes, 3.4%

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, 240 pages, 1984

5 votes, 2.4%

Out of Africa by Karen Blixen, 399 pages, 1937

5 votes, 2.4%

208 total votes

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