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The Harvard Coop - FALL 2010 | ||
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The Story of an African Farm (Penguin Classics) (Updated Edition) by Olive (Introduction By Dan Jacobson) Schreiner, Professor Dan Jacobson Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1983 ISBN-10: 0-14-043184-5 / 0140431845 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-043184-1 / 9780140431841 Two cousins grow up in the 1860s on a lonely farm in the thirsty mountain veld. Em is fat, sweet and contented, a born housewife; Lyndall, clever, restless, beautiful . . . and doomed. Their childhood is disrupted by a bombastic Irishman, Bonaparte Blenkins, who gains uncanny influence over the girl |