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A searing indictment of the rigid Boer social conventions of the 19th century, the first great South African novel chronicles the adventures of 3 childhood friends who defy societal repression. The novel's unorthodox views on religion and marriage aroused widespread controversy upon its 1883 publication.
- Sales Rank: #1041481 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-01-01
- Released on: 2013-01-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
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"This excellent edition of The Story of an African Farm allows us to read the novel in its important social, political, and literary contexts. Along with its thorough overview of the novel's place in turn-of-the-century views on gender and race, the text's introduction contributes a long-overdue focus on Schreiner and Victorian political economy. Readers will value the extensive appendices, which allow us to see the novel not only as an innovative narrative but also as a key intervention in social, political, and religious debates that affected Britain and its empire. This edition is an important achievement." (Paula M. Krebs ) --Paula M. Krebs
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"This excellent edition of The Story of an African Farm allows us to read the novel in its important social, political, and literary contexts. Along with its thorough overview of the novel's place in turn-of-the-century views on gender and race, the text's introduction contributes a long-overdue focus on Schreiner and Victorian political economy. Readers will value the extensive appendices, which allow us to see the novel not only as an innovative narrative but also as a key intervention in social, political, and religious debates that affected Britain and its empire. This edition is an important achievement." (Paula M. Krebs )
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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. Written from the margins of the British empire, the novel addresses the conflicts of race, class, and gender that shaped the lives of European settlers in Southern Africa before the Boer Wars. This Broadview edition includes appendices that link the novel to histories of empire and colonialism, the emergence of the New Woman, and the conflicts between science and religion in the Victorian period. Contemporary reviews are also included.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Haunting Charm and Pathos
By Cogitus
Format: Hardback, F.M. Lupton Pub. Co., NY, ca. 1890's
I happened upon "The Story of an African Farm" at an indoor flea market in Amish country; strange because I seldom browse books in such places any more, seldom finding anything worthwhile. I picked it up for some reason, maybe the title or its look. I read the brief preface and fell for the author who wrote that, read a few pages, and was hooked.
"The Story of an African Farm" is a strange book, and deep; very deep at times, with many penetrating insights and pithy observations. Most of its charm, and there is much of that, comes from the setting, the easy, compelling depiction of its principal characters, and the appealing natures of three young persons, Waldo, Lyndall, and Em, children at first, a boy and two girls. There is much to be explored in "The Story of an African Farm", much to be savored and enjoyed, and much to be pondered and learned from it. In the end, a fascinating, haunting novel.
The first third of the book tells a simple story, mostly about the charming children, their simple-minded adults, and an isolated African farm, completed by a dastardly, but three-dimensional, villain.
Next we embark (some years later) on a series of "events", some direct digression from the author, some imagined and metaphorical, some real, which largely relate the personal life philosophy developed by the authoress, through the lives and thoughts of the children. First, a rather charming discourse on religion from a developing-child's viewpoint, followed by an allegorical restatement of same. These are exceedingly well done, and succeed by charm of tale in being emotionally compelling ... providing the sorely-needed complement to dispassionate logical critiques. This discourse (and some later musings) rings of Left-Hegelian influence, but apparently never met Stirner. A pity, because this might have led to a happier philosophy and a happier life for this individualistic author, and her characters.
And lastly, a much less appealing feministic lecturette, unfortunately through one of the hitherto more appealing characters, which is long on the familiar one-sided diatribe, women (meaning the upper crust, intellectually, of women) want and are unhappy and it is all men's fault. The author appears to be unaware of any evolutionary perspective on this subject and its overriding implications, but then this is also resolutely ignored, for obvious reasons, throughout feministic "history". Not unexpected for a female intellectual, and authoress, of the times. However, this feministic diatribe is somewhat ameliorated, and even lampooned, when, after it has ended, the lady quickly undergoes a schizophrenic transition and calmly resumes her feminine persona and bearing, with all its presumption of feminine privilege and perquisite.
From here, we again pick up the main storyline of the three young people, each of whose life is about to change dramatically, and see also the return of the original charm, which we have long awaited and hoped for. This last third of the book sketches their subsequent lives, trials and tribulation, and "victories" over the next two years or so, and serves as the book's denouement. I will remain mute concerning this part of the book, lest I relate too much; only saying that it is provocative, filled with pathos, and well worth the wait and the read.
Three more things to say about "The Story of an African Farm" generally:
This is mostly a philosophic novel, mostly about Loneliness, about its forms, and its consequences. Set on a lonely, isolated African Farm, Lyndall is an orphan, as is Em essentially, while Waldo has his father, but lost his mother long ago. The children have, largely, only each other, and are very close, yet they are so different, one from the other, that in a very real sense they are isolated even from each other. .... Those who try to style this book as a feminist novel, an attack on Boer society, or an attack on religion, do it a great disservice; and belittle it; it is much more than that.
There is no philosophical denouement to the book, for the authoress (historically, apparently) never discovered the answers she was seeking herself, and hence had none to relate. The book is left open-ended in this regard, with only a few oblique possibilities explored or tentatively offered, all of which show obvious inconsistencies, of which the author is well aware.
"The Story of an African Farm" can be read, enjoyed, appreciated, and much-reflected upon (since one is "left hanging" in several regards) afterward with pleasure, and left at that. --- However, to really finish this book, and bring it to full value, one must complete it for oneself. This means, primarily, rooting out the real philosophical, psychological, source of, and solution to, Lyndall's "dilemma", and its twin horns. This is not so easy, because the author sketches only the conundrums and the miseries experienced (undoubtedly autobiographically, at least in part), the tracks of the beast so to speak, and in offering some tentative possibilities, only muddies the water, it seems. Finishing the book thus, bestows Unity and Completeness on the novel, and thus, as Waldo alone discovered, Beauty. ... And with that, "The Story of an African Farm" rests easy on the mind, haunting us more gently.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A ground-breaking novel, deeply felt and deeply moving. ...
By C J Gregorowski
A ground-breaking novel, deeply felt and deeply moving. The central section is didactic -- this would not be tolerated in a modern novel, but this was written in the 19th century. Nevertheless, it is relevant in the 21st.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Memorable, fascinating literature
By In the Bookcase
Very insightful story and plot. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The characters are memorable and the storyline just continues to thicken and grow more intriguing as you read.
The story begins with the main characters as children. Waldo, Lyndall and Em were perfect comrades for each other as they grew up together on an African farm. After becoming adults they tend to go their separate ways, but they always come back home.
Dramatic book you will not readily forget. I would recommend for High School literature and for adults.
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