# The Story of an African Farm

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- Book: [The Story of an African Farm](https://www.bookquiver.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm) ([The Story of an African Farm.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm.md))
- Authors: [Olive Schreiner](https://www.bookquiver.com/olive-schreiner)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-184-1
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2008-06-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Two cousins grow up in the 1860s on a lonely farm in the thirsty mountain veld. Em is fat, sweet and contented, a born housewife; Lyndall, clever, restless, beautiful . . . and doomed. Their childhood is disrupted by a bombastic Irishman, Bonaparte Blenkins, who gains uncanny influence over the girls' gross, stupid stepmother . . . This novel is one of the most astonishing, least-expected fiction masterpieces of its time and one that has had an enduring influence.