Anglický jazyk

Story of an African Farm, The

Vydavateľstvo: Dover Thrift Edition
Rok vydania: 1998
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 0486401650

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O knihe

In writing the first great South African novel, Olive Schreiner drew on childhood memories of life on the isolated African veld to fashion a powerful todictment of the rigid Boer and English social conventions other day. This 1883 best-seller, published under the pseudonym Ralph Iron, was greeted with both praise and condemnation for its feminist views on women`s status and on marriage, and for its unorthodox critique of dishonesty and hypocrisy in the doctrines and practices of "respectable" Christian church people.
The tale begins with three childhood playmates growing up on a sheep farm: Waldo, son of the farms kindly and pious German overseer; Em, the stolid but kind English stepdaughter of Tant* Sannie, the farms Boer owner; and Lyndall, Em`s spirited orphan cousin. As the story follows the friends to adulthood, basic conflicts are enacted both internally and externally. Ems ardent fiance falls in love with the beautiful but troubled Lyndall, who flouts social pressure to marry. Waldo struggles with his boundless yearning for spiritual fulfillment and for the stimulation that knowledge brings, as well as his need for warm human companionship.
Lyndall s fierce efforts to wrest from the world a life for herself, and the effects her insight and courage have on others, make a gripping tale. This eloquent portrayal of lives damaged by societal repression retains its power more than a century after its first publication. Todays readers will welcome this inexpensive edition of a literary landmark.