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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 which indicate a struggling, aspiring, rising moral nature, capable of high conceptions and of true, deep insight.” -Independent “The book stands the only one of its kind. It is like seeing visions to read it; and no one can read it understandingly and not be inspired to fresh struggles to attain the true, the good, and the beautiful.” -Public Opinion “Anyone who has read ‘The Story of an African Farm’ will need no urging to read Olive Schreiner’s ‘Dreams.’ It is a collection of allegories of life, as vividly condensed as tales by Maupassant or Coppee, but each opening up a long vista to the imagination….Miss Schreiner has thought much and deeply of the mysteries of human life before she poured out her doubts and longings in the African story, and in these dreams we may see the kernel of some of her best work.” -San Francisco Chronicle "The most formidable interpretive intellect that South Africa has produced." -Moore Ritchie “The book is a treasure for a lifetime….Never was there depicted a more earnest sympathy with the life that has lost its hold on good, and wandered from its true course. The spiritual significance is as great as is the intellectual grasp. The human life, the life next beyond this human life, are both sources of inspiration from which she draws.” -Sunday Budget

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 harmonious community living and well-being in the world. To learn more about the Freeriver project please visit the website - www.freerivercommunity.com

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Olive Schreiner was a nineteenth century giant. In her lifetime she was an author, bringing her native South Africa with all its wonders and flaws to the world. In addition she was a passionate campaigner against needless war, a radical freethinker and non-conformist.Dreams is her second work, after her popular work The Story of an African Farm, and comprises a collection of shorter tales. These stories were inspired by her more abstract and emotional feelings, as opposed to a practical recounting of events. The stories included in Dreams are wonderful parables which have been seized by readers and give us all an opportunity to think and feel in a new way, as well as a privileged window into the soul of the author. The stories centre around deeply personal and moving topics such as love, joy, loss and the passage of time and the personifications of these elements will bring tears to the eye. Schreiner's appeal has never been lost on the members of the women's movement and as part of a distinguished company along with the Bronte Sisters and Mary Wollstonecraft, she made her contribution to the fight for equality. In picking up this book, you are taking the same action that women who dream have made many times before. Not only that, but the same action as suffragist prisoners and rebels, meditating on it through cold cell block nights.For dreamers, rebels, women or those persons who are lucky enough to be all three, this work is indispensable.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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