The Story of an African Farm

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Olive Schreiner

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Paperback / softback

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This novel is one of the most astonishing, least expected fiction masterpieces of its time and one which has had an enduring influence. Two cousins grow up in the 1860s on a lonely Bible-dominated farm in the thirsty mountain veld. Em is fat, sweet and contented, a born housewife; Lyndall, clever, restless, beautiful...and doomed. Their childhood is disrupted by a bombastic Irishman, Bonaparte Blenkins, who claims blood ties with Wellington and Queen Victoria and so gains uncanny influence over the girls' gross, stupid stepmother...As the story of Em and Lyndall's two careers - both in their way tragic yet fulfilled - is taken to its end, we learn not merely of a backwater in colonial history but of the whole human condition.

Author Biography:

Olive Schreiner 1855-1920, South African author and feminist, b. Wittebergen Reserve, Cape Colony. After several years as a governess, she went to England in 1881, taking with her the manuscript of her famous novel, The Story of an African Farm (1883). Her later works included Dreams (1921), a collection of allegories; Women and Labour (1911); and a significant novel, unfinished, From Man to Man (1926).

Release date NZ

August 26th, 1982

Author

Olive Schreiner

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Dan Jacobson

Pages

304

Dimensions

129x198x17

ISBN-13

9780140431841

Product ID

1683830

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