Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass

10 best books like Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass (Isak Dinesen): Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, I Dreamed of Africa, Straight on Till Morning: A Biography of Beryl Markham, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Sparknotes Literature Guides), The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Basic Writings: On Liberty/The Subjection of Women/Utilitarianism, Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda, Little Women, The Secret Garden, Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Author

Alexandra Fuller

In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate....

I Dreamed of Africa

Author	Kuki Gallmann
ISBN	0140287442

At the age of twenty-five, Kuki Gallman, divorced and badly injured in a devastating car accident, left Italy to convalesce in Africa with the man who would become her second husband. Enchanted by the land, they established a vast ranch on the Laikipia plateau in Kenya. But Africa's splendor came with...

Straight on Till Morning: A Biography of Beryl Markham

Author	Mary S. Lovell
ISBN	0312010966

This is truly a fair-minded piece of work by an author who travelled extensively and took the trouble to meet the woman she intended to write about. Beryl Markham was truly a complicated woman, and not always (maybe not ever) a pleasant one. I was so impressed by the book allegedly written by Markham, West...

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Sparknotes Literature Guides)

Author	SparkNotes
ISBN	1586638300

Spark Publishing’s Literature Guides are celebrating their 5th Anniversary!  To celebrate this, we’re giving our TOP 50 a revamp by adding some exciting new features.

There will be sixteen pages devoted to writing a literary essay including: Glossary of literary terms, Step by...

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Author	Daniel Defoe
ISBN	0809594625

Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. We set out on the 5th of February from Ireland, and had a very fair gale of wind for some days....

The Basic Writings: On Liberty/The Subjection of Women/Utilitarianism

Author	John Stuart Mill
ISBN	0375759182

The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected for the first time in this volume are Mill's three seminal and most widely read works: "On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism," A brilliant defense of individual rights versus the power...

Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda

Author	Rosamond Halsey Carr
ISBN	0452282020

In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plantation. Land of a Thousand...

Little Women

Author	Deanna McFadden
ISBN	1402712367

I don’t really know how to rate this book! I’m so glad there is an abridged version I could read to my daughter at this point, but I was disappointed with the writing and storytelling. Having just read the Little House books it was a bit of a let down. However, the story and relationships in it are still...

The Secret Garden

Author	Martha Hailey DuBose
ISBN	1402713193

Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect...

Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

Author	Judith Thurman
ISBN	0312135254

A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Her magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established Isak Dinesen as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.

With...

Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

Author	Sara Wheeler
ISBN	1400060699

Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men. A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable stories in Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler...

Classical Mythology

Author

Elizabeth Vandiver

These 24 lectures are a vibrant introduction to the primary characters and most important stories of classical Greek and Roman mythology. Among those you'll investigate are the accounts of the creation of the world in Hesiod's Theogony and Ovid's Metamorphoses; the gods Zeus, Apollo, Demeter, Persephone,...