The Story of an African Farm

by Schreiner, Olive

• ISBN13: 9780486401652
• ISBN10: 0486401650
• Edition: Unabridged
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-26
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

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 SouthAfrica'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.

Table of Contents

Oxford World's Classics	p. ii
Acknowledgements	p. vi
Introduction	p. vii
Note on the Text	p. xxx
Select Bibliography	p. xxxi
A Chronology of Olive Schreiner	p. xxxiii
Preface	p. xxxix
Glossary	p. xli
	p. 1
Shadows from Child-Life	p. 1
Plans and Bushman-Paintings	p. 10
I Was a Stranger, and Ye Took Me In2605	p. 17
Blessed is He That Believeth	p. 24
Sunday Services Service No. I	p. 33
Bonaparte Blenkins Makes His Nest	p. 42
He Sets His Trap	p. 48
He Catches the Old Bird	p. 53
He Sees a Ghost	p. 64
He Shows His Teeth	p. 72
He Snaps	p. 75
He Bites	p. 83
He Makes Love	p. 95
Times and Seasons	p. 101
	p. 101
Waldo's Stranger	p. 119
Gregory Rose Finds His Affinity	p. 139
Lyndall	p. 149
Tant' Sannie Holds an Upsitting, and Gregory Writes a Letter	p. 167
a Boer-Wedding	p. 175
Waldo Goes Out to Taste Life, and Em Stays at Home and Tastes It	p. 188
the Kopje	p. 192
Lyndall's Stranger	p. 202
Gregory Rose Has an Idea	p. 211
an Unfinished Letter	p. 216
Gregory's Womanhood	p. 232
Dreams	p. 254
Waldo Goes Out to Sit in the Sunshine	p. 261
Explanatory Notes	p. 271
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