| Description |
1 online resource (xliv, 278 pages) |
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Oxford World's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Olive Schreiner; THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM; PART I; CHAPTER I: Shadows from Child-life; CHAPTER II: Plans and Bushman-paintings; CHAPTER III: I was a Stranger, and Ye Took Me in; CHAPTER IV: Blessed is He that Believeth; CHAPTER V: Sunday Services; CHAPTER VI: Bonaparte Blenkins makes his Nest; CHAPTER VII: He sets his Trap; CHAPTER VIII: He Catches the Old Bird; CHAPTER IX: He sees a Ghost; CHAPTER X: He shows his Teeth; CHAPTER XI: He Snaps; CHAPTER XII: He Bites; CHAPTER XIII: He Makes Love; PART II |
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CHAPTER I: Times and Seasons CHAPTER II: Waldo's Stranger; CHAPTER III: Gregory Rose finds his Affinity; CHAPTER IV: Lyndall; CHAPTER V: Tant' Sannie holds an Upsitting, and Gregory writes a Letter; CHAPTER VI: A Boer-wedding; CHAPTER VII: Waldo goes out to Taste Life, and Em stays at Home and Tastes it; CHAPTER VIII: The Kopje; CHAPTER IX: Lyndall's Stranger; CHAPTER X: Gregory Rose has an Idea; CHAPTER XI: An Unfinished Letter; CHAPTER XII: Gregory's Womanhood; CHAPTER XIII: Dreams; CHAPTER XIV: Waldo goes out to Sit in the Sunshine; Explanatory Notes |
| Summary |
Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. Raised as an orphan amid a makeshift family, she witnesses an intolerable world of colonial exploitation. Desiring a formal education, she leaves the isolated farm for boarding school in her early teens, only to return four years later from an unhappy relationship. Unable to meet the demands of her mysterious lover, Lyndall retires to a house in Bloemfontein, where, delirious with exhaustion, she is unknowingly tended by an English farmer disguised as her female nurse |
| Analysis |
English fiction |
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South Africa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxi-xxxii) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Young women -- Fiction
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Feminists -- Fiction
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Farm life -- Africa, Southern -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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Farm life
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Feminists
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Young women
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| SUBJECT |
Africa, Southern -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Southern Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction
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Bildungsromans
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Fiction
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Historical fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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Historical fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bristow, Joseph
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| ISBN |
9780191610653 |
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0191610658 |
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1283222868 |
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9781283222860 |
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9786613222862 |
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6613222860 |
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