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Dream Life and Real Life

by Olive Schreiner

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1893
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Dream Life and Real Life is an 1893 collection of three short pieces by Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the South African novelist and social thinker. The title story, a small Karoo tragedy in which the farm child Jannita dreams of kindness while the real world deals her betrayal and death, distils the contrast that gives the volume its name. The accompanying pieces, The Woman's Rose and The Policy in Favour of Protection, work Schreiner's lifelong subjects: the bonds and rivalries of women and the cost of love withheld or transferred. Schreiner wrote short allegories and dreams throughout her career as companions to her novels and her feminist treatise Woman and Labour. The little book shows her parable art in concentrated form.

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Olive Schreiner

Schreiner published The Story of an African Farm in 1883 under the name Ralph Iron, having written it while working as a governess on Karoo farms, and it did something no English novel had done, which was to put the South African veld and a woman refusing marriage in the same book.

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First published
1893
Reading time
About 50 minutes
Pages
29
Language
English
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