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A cause célèbre when it appeared in London, The Story of an African Farm transformed the shape and course of the late-Victorian novel. From the haunting plains of South Africa'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.
- Olive Schreiner
The Story of an African Farm (1883) marks an early appearance in fiction of Victorian society’s emerging New Woman. The novel follows the spiritual quests of Lyndall and Waldo, who each struggle against social constraints in their search for happiness and truth: Lyndall, against society’s expectations of women, and Waldo against stifling class conventions.
Wildly controversial at publication (1883) because of its feminist sentiments, the story has remained a touching and often wickedly funny portrayal of life on a late Victorian farm in South Africa. An astonishing and unexpected masterpiece of its time, its enduring influence and popularity has resulted in it being studied in universities and schools across the world.
17 lug 2016 · The Story of an African Farm. Paperback – July 17, 2016. "It is women like Olive Schreiner who make us realize that true virtue is neither monopolizing, sensual nor fixed by a changing ethical code, but is a thing of vibrant spirituality whose laws are registered in a gospel removed from mere rigid codes or even ethical epistles. It is this ...
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For the latest books, recommendations, author interviews and more. 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 ...
Film and television adaptations. In November 1974, filmmaker Lynton Stephenson announced that he was planning a film version of the book and in February 1975 director Howard Rennie indicated that his own production would be scripted by Robert Bolt. However, neither of these films came to pass.
