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The Story of An African Farm

The Story of An African Farm

Schreiner, Olive

Paperback

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 151753397X
ISBN13: 9781517533977
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 26 2015
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Spanning the childhood and burgeoning adulthood of three young people, thisstunning evocation of 19th-century South Africais a coming-of-age classic and an early feminist and modernist novel Lyndall is a feisty young girl with an independent spirit who is frustrated by the limited options open to her as a girl in South African society. She is the polar oppositeof her cheerful, chubby cousin Em, who aspires to get married and settle down. The third child in the trio is Lyndall s best friend, Waldo, a thoughtful little boy who questions everything about the world around him except his affection for Lyndall. The children s bucolic lives on the veld are disrupted by the arrival of Bonaparte Blenkins to the farm, a confidence trickster who is keen to seduce Em s stepmother in order to take over the farm. Only Lyndall has the self-confidence to stand up to Bonaparte s cruelty, but ultimately his actions will echo throughout their lives forever. As the children grow up, they fall in love, move away, move back, and ultimately find meaning in their lives, despite the tragedies they endure. An instant bestseller on its publication in 1883, this book was far ahead of its time in its portrayal of women in society, and itretains its power more than a century later.Tackling themes of religion, philosophy, unrequited love, and fate, it helped transformthe shape and course of the lateVictorian novel andis a classic of South African literature.

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