{"product_id":"the-angelic-avengers-9780141186436","title":"The Angelic Avengers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eISAK DINESEN was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce in 1921, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark in 1931. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough she had written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905 (under the \u003ci\u003enom de plume\u003c\/i\u003e of Osceola), her real début took place in 1934 with the publication of \u003ci\u003eSeven Gothic Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, written in English under her pen-name. \u003ci\u003eOut of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (1937) is an autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya. Most of her subsequent books were published in English and Danish simultaneously, including \u003ci\u003eWinter's Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (1942) and \u003ci\u003eThe Angelic Avengers\u003c\/i\u003e (1946), under the name of Pierre Andrézol. Among her other collections of stories are \u003ci\u003eLast T\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017573794135,"sku":"9780141186436","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141186436.jpg?v=1750773993","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-angelic-avengers-9780141186436","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}