Story of an African Farm

About the book

Set in the 1870s on a Karoo farm, The Story of an African Farm tells the tale of Tant Sannie, Em and Lyndall. When the sinister and eccentric Bonaparte Blenkins arrives, their peaceful farm life is disrupted through his various deceptions. His motives are all too obvious to Em and Lyndall and they collude to expose him as a fraud. Published as No. 197 in March 1939, The Story of an African Farm has been in print as a paperback with Penguin Books ever since. This revised, complete edition - issued to commemorate the novel's 125th anniversary - includes Olive Schreiner's preface to the second printing, with her husband's 1924 introduction as the present afterword. Among the numerous plaudits bestowed on this pioneer novel is that of Es'kia Mphahlele in 1960, when...