On a lonely Boer farm, orphaned children wrestle with faith, freedom, and a woman's ambitions. Schreiner's pioneering colonial and feminist novel.
Books mentioned in The Story of an African Farm (6)
First Principles by Herbert Spencer: “While I was putting the food on the box he looked at my books; he read their names out aloud. 'Elementary Physiology,' 'First Principles.”
Elementary Physiology: “While I was putting the food on the box he looked at my books; he read their names out aloud. 'Elementary Physiology,' 'First Principles.”
Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill: “Political Economy had not been one. He was not, therefore, very clear as to what the nature of the book might be; and as the name of the writer, J.S. Mill, might, for anything he knew to the contrary”
Physical Geography by Mary Somerville: “The 'Physical Geography' says," he went on most rapidly and confusedly, "that what were dry lands now were once lakes; and what I think is this--these low hills were once the shores of a lake; this kopje is some of the stones that were at the bottom, rolled together by the water.”
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “If Goethe had been stolen away a child, and reared in a robber horde in the depths of a German forest, do you think the world would have had "Faust" and "Iphegenie?"”
Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell: “He knew he had learnt many about love; but the only thing that would come into his mind now was the "Battle of Hohenlinden," and "Not a drum was heard," neither of which seemed to bear directly on the subject on hand.”
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The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: “What made me think of South Africa was that novel of Olive Schreiner's, you know--'The Story of an African Farm.' Gregory Rose is so like you.”