The World's Great Question: Olive Schreiner's South African Letters, 1889-1920

xlviii, 424pp, with occasional illustrations in text. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. Boards slightly rounded at corners. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, a little bumped at corners and spine tips, lightly faded on leading edges and over spine. Features over 300 of Olive Schreiner's letters, written from South Africa in the latter part of the 19th century, on the people of South Africa, its politics and racial order, as well as her unfolding critiques of Cecil Rhodes, De Beers and the violence of the British South Africa Company.