The story of an African farm

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Title:

The story of an African farm

Author:

Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920.

ISBN:

9780140431841

Personal Author:

Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920.

Publication Information:

Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1995, c1971 (1982 [printing])

Physical Description:

300 p. ; 18 cm.

Series:

The Penguin English library

General Note:

Fiction in English. South African writers,. to 1909 -Texts (BNB/PRECIS)

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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.

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