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    Dream Life and Real Life; a little African story
    Dream Life and Real Life; a little African story
    Dream Life and Real Life; a little African story
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    Dream Life and Real Life; a little African story

    By Olive Schreiner

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Dream Life and Real Life; a little African story
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    Olive Schreiner

    Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was a South African political activist and writer. Born to a family of Wesleyan missionaries, Schreiner was educated by her mother. Forced to move frequently due to her father’s inability to maintain a job, Schreiner became familiar with the landscape of South Africa and the cultural and political tensions holding together its diverse population. In 1881, she travelled to England in order to pursue her dream of becoming a medical professional, but her chronic asthma and limited finances prevented her from completing her training. In 1883, she published her debut novel, The Story of an African Farm, under a pseudonym, launching a career as one of South Africa’s leading writers. Throughout her life, she advocated for political equality for South Africa’s marginalized groups, including Afrikaners, indigenous Africans, Jews, and Indians. Combining a deep understanding of Christian morality with an active interest in socialism and the women’s suffrage movement, Schreiner is recognized as a pioneering feminist and political activist who wrote unflinchingly on such subjects as the Boer War, British imperialism, and intersectionality.

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      Dream Life and Real Life; a little African story - Olive Schreiner

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dream Life and Real Life, by Olive Schreiner

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      Title: Dream Life and Real Life

      Author: Olive Schreiner

      Release Date: August 16, 2008 [EBook #1458]

      Last Updated: January 20, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DREAM LIFE AND REAL LIFE ***

      Produced by Sue Asscher, and David Widger

      DREAM LIFE AND REAL LIFE

      A Little African Story

      by Olive Schreiner

      Author of The Story of an African Farm and Dreams

                                            Dedication.

                                            To My Brother Fred,

              For whose little school magazine the first of these

              tiny stories—one of the first I ever made—

              was written out many long years ago.

              O.S.

              New College, Eastbourne, Sept. 29, 1893.

      Contents

      Kopjes—In the karoo, are hillocks of stones, that rise up singly or in

      clusters, here and there; presenting sometimes the fantastic appearance

      of old ruined castles or giant graves, the work of human hands.

      Kraal—A sheepfold.

      Krantz—A precipice.

      Sluit—A deep fissure, generally dry, in which the superfluous torrents

      of water are carried from the karoo plains after thunderstorms.

      Stoep—A porch.

      I. DREAM LIFE AND REAL LIFE; A LITTLE AFRICAN STORY.

      Little Jannita sat alone beside a milk-bush. Before her and behind her stretched the plain, covered with red sand and thorny karoo bushes; and here and there a milk-bush, looking like a bundle of pale green rods tied together. Not a tree was to be seen anywhere, except on the banks of the river, and that was far away, and the sun beat on her head. Round her fed the Angora goats she was herding; pretty things, especially the little ones, with white silky curls that touched the ground. But Jannita sat crying. If an angel should gather up in his cup all the tears that have been shed, I think the bitterest would be those of children.

      By and by she was so tired, and the sun was so hot, she laid her head against the milk-bush, and dropped asleep.

      She dreamed a beautiful dream. She thought that when she went back to the farmhouse in the evening, the walls were covered with vines and roses, and the kraals were not made of red stone, but of lilac trees full of blossom. And the fat old Boer smiled at her; and the stick he held across the door, for the goats to jump over, was a lily rod with seven blossoms at the end. When she went to the house her mistress gave her a whole roaster-cake for her supper, and the mistress's daughter had stuck a rose in the cake; and her mistress's son-in-law said, Thank you! when she pulled off his boots, and did not kick her.

      It was a beautiful dream.

      While she lay thus dreaming, one of the little kids came and licked her on her cheek, because of the salt from her dried-up tears.

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