MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009520330
003 DLC
005 20100302065958.0
008 091116s2008 sa a 000 0 eng
010 $a 2009520330
040 $aDLC$cDLC
020 $a9780143185604
020 $a0143185608
050 00 $aPR9369.2.S37$bS7 2008b
100 1 $aSchreiner, Olive,$d1855-1920.
245 14 $aThe story of an African farm /$cOlive Schreiner.
250 $a125th anniversary ed.
260 $aJohannesburg :$bPenguin Books (South Africa),$c2008.
300 $axiv, 311 p. :$bill. ;$c20 cm.
490 0 $aModern classics
500 $a"The story of an African farm was first published by Chapman and Hall, London, in two volumes in 1883, followed by a second single-volume edition later that year, which included the 'Preface' reproduced here. The present 125th anniversary edition, however, follows the reset text published by Hutchinson in London in 1893, complete and unabridged, so that details omitted in numerous later editions have here been restored."--A note on the text.
500 $a"Includes Olive Schreiner's preface to the second printing, with her husband's [Samuel Cronwright] introduction of 1924 as the present afterword"--Cover p. 4.
500 $a"Photos reproduced courtesy of the National English Literary Museum and of Stephen Gray"--T.p. verso.
651 0 $aAfrica, Southern$vFiction.
650 0 $aSocial classes$vFiction.
650 0 $aFeminists$vFiction.
651 0 $aFarm life$vFiction.
650 0 $aSex role$vFiction.