Mafeking Road
de Bosman, Herman Charles
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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(Cape Town & Pretoria, Human & Rousseau, 1969). 8vo; original black boards, a little rubbed; dustwrapper; pp. 166. Dustwrapper somewhat fishmothed; scattered browning, especially to endpapers, edges and dustwrapper; gift inscription to front pastedown. Fair to good condition. 'The best short stories that ever came out of South Africa' - Roy Campbell. .
Sinopsis
Herman Charles Bosman (1905–1951), a household name in South Africa, was born near Cape Town but lived most of his life in the Transvaal. He spent the first six months of 1926 as a teacher at a farm school in the Marico District of what was then the Western Transvaal. His term was cut short when, on a vacation back at his family home in Johannesburg, he shot and killed his step-brother. He spent four years on death row in Pretoria Central Prison before his sentence was commuted. Upon his release in 1930, he took up a career as a journalist and began his celebrated Oom Schalk stories, which culminated in the publication of Mafeking Road in 1947. His first novel, Jacaranda in the Night, appeared the same year while his prison memoir, Cold Stone Jug, was published two years later. Bosman died of heart failure in October 1951. He has come to be widely considered South Africa’s greatest short story writer.
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- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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- 1524
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- Mafeking Road
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- Bosman, Herman Charles
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- (Cape Town & Pretoria, Human & Rousseau, 1969)
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- Herman Charles Bosman. South African literature. Groot Marico South African Literature
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- South African Literature;
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