The Story of an Africa Farm | Olive Schreiner [read by Melanie Walker's Digital Twin]
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On a lonely farm in the Karoo, three children grow up under an enormous sky. Lyndall is fierce and clever and wants a life no woman of her time is allowed. Waldo is a dreamer who carves, questions and builds, and has everything he loves taken from him. Em is gentle and steady and expects very little. Around them move the formidable Tant' Sannie and Bonaparte Blenkins, one of the great frauds in fiction.
First published in 1883 under the pen name Ralph Iron, The Story of an African Farm was a sensation in London and is still called the first great South African novel. Olive Schreiner wrote about faith, freedom, love and the right of a woman to choose her own life, decades before those questions were safe to ask. It reads as boldly today as it did then.
This is Solid Gold's new, complete and unabridged recording of Schreiner's original text, which is out of copyright. It is read by Melanie Walker's Digital Twin: a licensed digital voice of the South African broadcaster. A short note at the start explains the recording and the pen name.
First published in 1883 under the pen name Ralph Iron, The Story of an African Farm was a sensation in London and is still called the first great South African novel. Olive Schreiner wrote about faith, freedom, love and the right of a woman to choose her own life, decades before those questions were safe to ask. It reads as boldly today as it did then.
This is Solid Gold's new, complete and unabridged recording of Schreiner's original text, which is out of copyright. It is read by Melanie Walker's Digital Twin: a licensed digital voice of the South African broadcaster. A short note at the start explains the recording and the pen name.
