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This early work by Olive Schreiner was originally published in 1883 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. "The Story of an African Farm" details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults, and when published caused significant controversy over its frank portrayal of freethought, feminism, premarital sex, and transvestitism. Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner was born on 24th March 1855 at the Wesleyan Missionary Society station at Wittebergen in the Eastern Cape, near Herschel in South Africa. In 1880, Olive set sail for the United Kingdom with the goal of taking a position as a trainee nurse at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh in Scotland. Unfortunately ill-health prevented her from studying and she was forced to concede that writing would and could be her only work in life. She became increasingly involved with the politics of the South Africa, leading her to make influential acquaintances such as Cecil John Rhodes, with whom she eventually became disillusioned and wrote a scathing allegory in his honour.

Originally published in 1896, "The Political Situation" is a work of political commentary on the governance of South Africa. Olive Schreiner (1855¿1920) was a South African anti-war campaigner, intellectual, and author most famous for her highly-acclaimed novel ¿The Story of an African Farm¿ (1883), which deals with such issues as existential independence, agnosticism, individualism, and the empowerment of women. Other notable works by this author include: ¿Closer Union: a Letter on South African Union and the Principles of Government¿ (1909), and ¿Woman and Labour¿ (1911). Read & Co. History is proudly republishing this classic work now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Originally published in 1897, "Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland" is a bitterly scathing allegory written about her disillusionment with the politics of Cecil John Rhodes. Schreiner became increasingly involved with the politics of the South Africa, leading her to make influential acquaintances such as Cecil John Rhodes, with whom she eventually became disillusioned and wrote a scathing allegory in his honour. Olive Schreiner (1855¿1920) was a South African anti-war campaigner, intellectual, and author most famous for her highly-acclaimed novel ¿The Story of an African Farm¿ (1883), which deals with such issues as existential independence, agnosticism, individualism, and the empowerment of women. Other notable works by this author include: ¿Closer Union: a Letter on South African Union and the Principles of Government¿ (1909), and ¿Woman and Labour¿ (1911). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic insightful work now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Originally published in 1893, "Dream Life and Real Life - a Little African Story" is a short story that illuminates issues of ethnicity and gender through a tragic tale of a little girl that becomes enslaved by a family. Olive Schreiner (1855¿1920) was a South African anti-war campaigner, intellectual, and author most famous for her highly-acclaimed novel ¿The Story of an African Farm¿ (1883), which deals with such issues as existential independence, agnosticism, individualism, and the empowerment of women. Other notable works by this author include: ¿Closer Union: a Letter on South African Union and the Principles of Government¿ (1909), and ¿Woman and Labour¿ (1911). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic short story now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Originally published in 1911, "Woman and Labour" is a landmark work of feminist literature that deals with historical and societal issues of the role of women and the differences between the sexes. Olive Schreiner (1855¿1920) was a South African anti-war campaigner, intellectual, and author most famous for her highly-acclaimed novel ¿The Story of an African Farm¿ (1883), which deals with such issues as existential independence, agnosticism, individualism, and the empowerment of women. Other notable works by this author include: ¿Closer Union: a Letter on South African Union and the Principles of Government¿ (1909), and ¿Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland¿ (1897). Read & Co. History is proudly republishing this classic work now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Originally published in 1924, ¿Dreams¿ is a collection of short stories written by South African writer Olive Schreiner. Her second book, ¿Dreams¿ contains eleven short stories inspired by Schreiner's dreams and her experiences living on a South African farm. Olive Schreiner (1855¿1920) was a South African anti-war campaigner, intellectual, and author most famous for her highly-acclaimed novel ¿The Story of an African Farm¿ (1883), which deals with such issues as existential independence, agnosticism, individualism, and the empowerment of women. Other notable works by this author include: ¿Closer Union: a Letter on South African Union and the Principles of Government¿ (1909), and ¿Woman and Labour¿ (1911). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing these classic short stories now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

A work that defies conventional categorization; however, one might best capture Dreams unique formal structure by construing it as a series of prose poems or narrative paintings, a starkly modern text inflected by the far older tradition of the medieval dream vision poem.

This book has been deemed as a classic and has stood the test of time. The book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations.

This book has been deemed as a classic and has stood the test of time. The book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations.

The Story of an African Farm (1883) marks an early appearance in fiction of Victorian society's emerging New Woman.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.

This volume brings together for the first time the entire range of the shorter pieces of imaginative writing that she continued to produce throughout her life, together with her final account of the vision informing her life''s work. It rescues Schreiner from the charge of having exhausted a slim talent in one semi autobiographical novel and provides a context in which to situate a woman writer whose idealist concerns recognised no simple geographical boundaries. To picture her as first and foremost a colonial writer or, alternatively, primarily as a member of the finde-siecle British avant garde, does little justice to the links she made in her own writing and to the complex situation she occupied, for Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner''s life (1855-1920) straddled two centuries and two continents, while her travels between the land of her birth, South Africa, and her family''s European homeland embroiled her in the political ferment of two wars: the Boer War (1899-1902) and the first World War (1914-1918).