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"Dreams" is a collection of short stories by Olive Schreiner. The stories explore the inner lives and struggles of women in Victorian-era South Africa, grappling with issues of identity, love, and societal expectations. The collection includes several poignant and thought-provoking... Read Full Overview

Dreams by Olive Schreiner, South African author and feminist. It contains eleven stories based on Schreiner's dreams and life on a farm in South Africa. Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote... Read Full Overview

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. "It contains grand passages, and passages... Read Full Overview

Dreamsis a work that defies conventional categorization; however, one might best capture its unique formal structure by construing it as a series of prose poems or narrative paintings, a starkly modern text inflected by the far older tradition of the medieval dream-vision poem... Read Full Overview

This volume brings together for the first time the entire range of the shorter pieces of imaginative writing that she continued to produce throughout her life, together with her final account of the vision informing her life's work. It rescues Schreiner from the charge of having... Read Full Overview

All day the soft wind played with her hair, and the young, young face looked out across the water. She was waiting-she was waiting; but she could not tell for what. All day the waves ran up and up on the sand, and ran back again, and the pink shells rolled. Life sat waiting;... Read Full Overview

And of that meeting was born a thing rare and beautiful-Joy, First-Joy was it called. The sunlight when it shines upon the merry water is not so glad; the rosebuds, when they turn back their lips for the sun's first kiss, are not so ruddy. Its tiny pulses beat quick. It was so... Read Full Overview

And of that meeting was born a thing rare and beautiful-Joy, First-Joy was it called. The sunlight when it shines upon the merry water is not so glad; the rosebuds, when they turn back their lips for the sun's first kiss, are not so ruddy. Its tiny pulses beat quick. It was so... Read Full Overview

1924. 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. See other titles by this author... Read Full Overview

Dreams by Olive Schreiner 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. See other titles... Read Full Overview