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3 reviews
Alan Paton

Vintage, 2002

Heartbreaking, Must Read Story
"Cry, the Beloved Country" gives us an inside look at South African apartheid in the 1940's. We live this story through the eyes of a poor Zulu pastor who decides to travel from his small village to Johannesburg in hopes to save his son from mounting troubles. The migration of gold mine workers to the cities has increased the crime rate due to the separation of families. Exploitation of these ...

Cry, the Beloved Country [UNABRIDGED]
Alan Paton

Blackstone Audiobooks, 2003

A work of searing beauty, Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, and his son, Absalom. It is also the story of a land and a people riven by racial injustice, reflecting the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen compassion and understanding that the listener shares fully in the gravity of the characters’ situations. Alan Paton said of his book: ...

Too Late The Phalarope

12 reviews
Alan Paton

Scribner, 1996

emotionally wrenching and beautifully written
This is the first time I have been so moved by a book that I have written a review of it. When I think of "the lieutenant" and his goodness, his sin, his longing - deep longing - for fulfilled love with his spouse or his father or his G-d, my heart aches. Because of his physical beauty and bearing, others have set him apart. Where is he at home? Not in either of his own homes, not in his own ...

Ah but Your Land Is Beautiful

4 reviews
Alan Paton

Scribner, 1996

Paton at his best.
"Ah But Your Land is Beautiful" is far and away one of the best books written about the old South Africa, and in many ways still applies very much so to today's "Rainbow Nation." Taking the reader into all of the minds in South Africa at the dawn of apartheid, this gripping multi-viewpoint docu-fiction is an amazing experience for those with everything from a little to an extensive background ...

Cry, the Beloved Country: Classic Collection
Alan Paton

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2008

Set in the troubled South Africa of the 1940s, this is the deeply moving story of a Zulu pastor, his son, and a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Passionately African, yet timeless and universal, it is a work of searing beauty.

Tales from a Troubled Land

1 review
Alan Paton

Scribner, 1996

Tales From A Troubled Land
It was excellect, though very dark in it's discription of the injustice of the apartide. And continuing motifs of oppresion and curruption and hoplessness made it very deppresing. Not as good as his other book, Cry the Beloved Country.

Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)

238 reviews
Alan Paton

Scribner, 2003

South Africa - 60 Years Past
Although this book is about 60 years old I just read it for the 1st time. It is a keeper and a treasure. It is a book that you will want to revisit often at least for awhile. I find the book to be filled with spiritual messages. You will see the making of aparthaid long before it was abolished. The story itself is quite suspenseful and Paton's writing style is unique. I like it.

The Show Must Go On/The Cry and the Covenant/Autobiography of Will Rogers/Cry, the Beloved Country (Reader's ...
Elmer Rice, Morton Thompson, ...

Reader's Digest Association, 1950

Condensed selections of The Show Must Go On/Cry, The Beloved Country/The Cry and the Covenant/Will Rogers Autobiography.

Cry, the Beloved Country - unabridged audio cassette

1 review
Alan Paton

BORDERS, 1992

bad
horrible recording. Not only is the reader nearly always monotone, his different voices vary in volume so much that I constantly had to keep adjusting the volume. Also, the recording was not done well, and the reader was not very articulate to begin with, so the entire sound was rather fuzzy. I couldn't listen to all of it, it was so bad. avoid!

Instrument of Thy Peace

1 review
Alan Paton

Seabury Pr, 1982

Instrument of Thy Peace
This is a book to be read and reread. Alan Paton has revised this classic book of twenty-one meditations on the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. Each meditation ends with a personal prayer. --- from book's back cover

Miller's The Crucible (Cliffs Notes)

11 reviews
Alan Paton

Cliffs Notes, 1988

my opinion
this is a great piece of art by arthur miller. he catches your attention with the lies and injustices of the 1600's. this is a good book because of it's content. the speech is, as it was in that time. it tells a tale of a little girl who gets caught being "naughty" and blames it on the circumstances of those she doesn't like or has problems with. this book teaches that to lie about ...

Cry, the Beloved Country : A Story of Comfort in Desolation
Alan Paton

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948

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