The Story of an African Farm (English Library)

by Dan Jacobson (Introduction), Dan Jacobson (Introduction), Olive Schreiner (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $3.73

  Two cousins grow up in the 1860s on a lonely 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 gains uncanny influence over the girls' gross, stupid stepmother ...This novel is one of the most astonishing, least-expected fiction masterpieces of its time and one that has had an enduring influence.

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  Paperback
  1998

  $3.34

  This pioneering work was a cause celebre when it appeared in London, transforming the shape and course of the late Victorian novel. Lynall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. From the haunting plains of South Africa's high Karoo, Schreiner boldly addresses her society's greatest fears: the loss of faith, the dissolution of marriage, and women's social and political independence.