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The Penguin book of Southern African stories

Title
The Penguin book of Southern African stories / edited by Stephen Gray.
Publication
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1985.

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Additional Authors
Gray, Stephen, 1941-
Description
328 pages; 20 cm
Alternative Title
Southern African stories.
Subject
  • Short stories, Southern African
  • Tales > Africa, Southern
  • Southern Africa
  • Zimbabwe
  • Malawi
  • literature (form)
  • anthologies (form)
  • short stories (form)
  • Manners and customs
  • Tales
  • Africa, Southern > Social life and customs > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Short stories, Southern African.
  • Fictional Work
  • Fiction.
  • Romans.
Note
  • "A Penguin original"--Cover, on label.
Contents
The origin of death -- Dove and jackal / Frank Brownlee -- The king of the waters / A.C. Jordan -- The unreasonable child -- Little reed-alone-in-the-whirlpool / Eugene N. Marais -- Hannie's journal / Anthony Delius -- Gokatweng and the buffaloes -- The outspan / J. Percy Fitzpatrick -- The woman's rose / Olive Schreiner -- The schoolmaster / Pauline Smith -- Outa sem and father Christmas / Toon Van Den Heever -- The Rooinek / Herman Charles Bosman -- The cloud child / Stephen Black -- Fuel of fire / Arthur Shearly Cripps -- When the sardines came / William Plomer -- The death of Masaba / R.R.R. Dhlomo -- Lonesome / Peter Abrahams -- Sebolelo comes home / C.E. Moikangoa -- Once in a century / D.B.Z. Ntuli -- Out of the fountain / Doris Lessing -- Ekaterina / Jack Cope -- The goat / Ingrid Jonker -- Soup for the sick / Hennie Aucamp -- Drought / Jan Rabie -- Boy-boy / Casey Motsisi -- The bench / Richard Rive -- Mrs. Plum / Es'Kia Mphahlele -- The lovers / Bessie Head -- Exile / Rose Moss -- My cousin comes to Jo'burg / Mbulelo Mzamane -- Two sisters / Ahmed Essop -- A strange romance / Achmat Dangor -- The road to Migowi / Ken Lipenga -- The slow sound of his feet / Dambudzo Marechera -- Sunlight in Trebizond Street / Alan Paton -- The butcher shop / Sheila Roberts -- At the rendezvous of victory / Nadine Gordimer -- Milk / Elsa Joubert -- Space Invaders / Peter Wilhelm.
ISBN
  • 014007239X
  • 9780140072396
LCCN
86224757
OCLC
  • ocm13243869
  • 13243869
  • SCSB-1171189
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library