Download or read book Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 written by Isak Dinesen and published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction . . . made her an international success and perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. . . . These letters] contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir "Out of Africa" (1937). They also reveal her as a highly intelligent and sensitive analyst of a strange new world." Bruce Allen, "Christian Science Monitor" ""Letters from Africa" is literary gold, 24 karat." Alden Whitman, "Boston Globe""