The Story of an African Farm - Couverture rigide

Schreiner, Olive; Aka-Iron, Ralph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0517568039 ISBN 13 : 9780517568033

Editeur : Crown Pub, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Schreiner Olive

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Crown Pub
• Date d'édition: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0517568039
• ISBN 13: 9780517568033
• Reliure: Relié