Лучшие книги Оливии Шрейнер

В «Избранное» входят роман «Африканская ферма», первое правдивое, без экзотических прикрас описание жизни в прежней Африке, рассказы и аллегории, о которых Максим Горький писал, что «Оливии Шрейнер превосходно удается объединить... крупное идейное содержание с художественным изложением».

Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. Raised as an orphan amid a makeshift family, she witnesses an intolerable world of colonial exploitation. Desiring a formal education, she leaves the isolated farm for boarding school in her early teens, only to return four years later from an unhappy relationship. Unable to meet the demands of her mysterious lover, Lyndall retires to a house in Bloemfontein, where, delirious with exhaustion, she is unknowingly tended by an English farmer disguised as her female nurse. This is the devoted Gregory Rose, Schreiner's daring embodiment of the sensitive New Man.

A cause célèbre when it appeared in London, The Story of an African Farm transformed the shape and course of the late-Victorian novel. From the haunting plains of South Africa's high Karoo, Schreiner boldly addresses her society's greatest fears - the loss of faith, the dissolution of marriage, and women's social and political independence.

Бойся своих желаний... Прекрасная женщина пожелала самому дорогому лучшее из благ, которая она могла дать. И он ушел... Kons

This is the second book by Schreiner, South African author and feminist, who is best remembered for her novel, The Story of an African Farm. It contains eleven short stories based on Schreiner's dreams and life on a farm in South Africa.

This feminist classic represents a vivid, eloquently expressed effort to promote the rectification of inequalities of labor practices between men and women of the early 20th century. Schreiner (author of the ground-breaking novel of South Africa,

Zehn Tr?ume beantworten die gro?en Fragen der Menschheit!Die zehn zu dem Band «Tr?ume» zusammengefassten Erz?hlungen basieren auf die Tr?ume und das Leben der Autorin in S?dafrika. Eindringlich und faszinierende besch?ftigen sich die Geschichten mit dem Wesen von Gl?ck, Weisheit und Wahrheit. -