Olive Schreiner

The Political Situation (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Read Books Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 66
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473397187
• Artikelnr.: 43098534

Autorenporträt

Olive Schreiner (Ralph Iron Olive) was born in Wittebergen, Cape Colony, South Africa, on March 25, 1855.She was a writer who published the first great South African novel, The Story of an African Farm (1883). She had strong insight, aggressive feminist and liberal perspectives on politics and society, and an extraordinary spirit that was damaged by asthma and depression. Schreiner had no proper education, even though she used to read widely and was taught by her mother. From 1874 until 1881, when she went to England, expecting to study medicine, she wrote two semiautobiographical books, Undine (published in 1928) and The Story of an African Farm (1883), and started From Man to Man (1926), for which she worked alternately for 40 years but never finished.