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
The Story of an African Farm (Oxford World's Classics)
β Scribed by Schreiner, Olive; Bristow, Joseph;
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 230 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780192836649
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