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The Story of an African Farm

Olive Schreiner author Dan Jacobson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:26th Aug '82

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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.

ISBN: 9780140431841

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm

Weight: 224g

304 pages