Stories, Dreams and Allegories
New York, N.Y. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1923. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. viii, 153, [3] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Front hinge weak and restrengthened with glue. Cover has some wear and soiling. This book contains all of Olive Schreiner's yet unprinted or uncollected imaginative writing. They appear unaltered, except in a few minor respects like punctuation, as Olive Schreiner left them among her papers. The book contains a Preface by S. C. Cronwright-Schreiner, 7 stories, and 15 Dreams and Allegories. Contains the stories Eighteen-ninety-nine; Nineteen Hundred and One, In the Year Nineteen Hundred and Four; The Buddhist Priest's Wife; On the Banks of a Full River; The wax Doll and the Stepmother; and The Adventures of Master Towser. Also contains the Dreams and Allegories of A Soul's Journey--Two Visions; God's Gifts to Men; They Heard; Life's Gifts; The Flower and the Spirit; The River of Life; The Brown Flower; The Two Paths; A Dream of Prayer; Workers; The Cry of South Africa; Seeds A-Growing; The Great Heart of England; Who Knocks at the Door? and The Winged Butterfly. More