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The Winter's Tale (Literature: Stratford Series)

21 reviews
William Shakespeare, Maxwell-Mahon

Maskew Miller Longman (Pty) Ltd

A curious play
Early compilers of Shakespeare's plays classified this a comedy, but there is much tragedy in it. Later it was called a romance. Through irrational jealousy a king is apparently responsible for the deaths of his entire family -- wife, son and daughter -- by mid-play. Time is a character in the play and at his one appearance summarizes the passage of sixteen years. If you have an overy high regard ...

Hard Times

66 reviews
Charles Dickens, Bertelsen

Maskew Miller Longman (Pty) Ltd

Hard Times is Dickens shortest novel as it takes the lid off respectability in ficitional Coketown
Hard Times was written in 1854 by England's greatest novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870. It is the shortest of his novels. The novel was originally published as a weekly series in "Household Words" periodical edited by Dickens. The novel reads quickly telling a story that is still relevant in our own post-industrial 21st century Western Society. The novel is set in fictional Coketown set in ...

Soweto

1 review
Philip Bonner, Segal

Maskew Miller Longman Pty.Ltd ,South Africa, 1998

Exemplary History of Soweto
This book is a fascinating historical survey of Soweto, a sprawling black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Soweto started life in the 1930s as a dreary dumping ground for Africans displaced by slum demolitions. It grew into the largest black city in South Africa, as blacks streamed to Joburg to work in the white economy but were required to live in separate black areas. Soweto became ...

Song of Be (Literature: Young Africa Series)

1 review
BEAKE

Maskew Miller Longman Pty.Ltd ,South Africa, 2001

Song of Be, an amazing tale . . .
Song of Be is an extraordinary book. You have to read it over at least twice to fully understand it, but its worth it. It focuses on the life of a young African girl, a bushman, who moves to a farming plantation with her mother. She finds out to much about her past, and pays a harsh price for it. This book is a realistic fiction novel, as the bushman were really put through similar ...