Society

The Story of an African Farm

by Olive Schreiner

Two cousins, Lyndall and Em, and a farmer’s son, Waldo, grow up on a lonely farm in the Karoo. Olive Schreiner, born at a mission station in the Cape, published it in 1883 under the name Ralph Iron, and its heroine’s arguments for women’s independence made it famous. It is often called the first great South African novel.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 6 hr 50 min

Where to find it

The African Reading Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #1441. In the public domain in the United States.