Category: Literature

TOP 10 SOUTH AFRICAN NOVELS

The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner First published in 1883, this depiction of life on an isolated farm in the Karoo is remarkable not only for the beauty of its descriptive writing, but for the radical and feminist ideas expressed by its free-spirited heroine, Lyndall. Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Read More

Literary models for The Dark Tower

Writing The Dark Tower necessitated a good deal of historical research – not all of which was factual. Novels, such as The American by Henry James, The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope, A Pair of Blue Eyes and The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, The Egoist by Meredith – all of which were Read More

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