Best Selling Books by Alan Paton

Sophomore Honors English Reading List - Ms. Lamore.

With a mixture of compassion and despair, this collection of ten short stories by the distinguished author of ''Cry, the Beloved Country'' speaks eloquently yet incisively of the injustices of the author''s native land, South Africa.

From the author of Cry, The Beloved Country comes a powerful novel of terror and remorse “written in exquisitely balanced prose” (Chicago Sun-Times) about a white policeman who has an affair with a native girl in South Africa. After violating his country’s ironclad law governing relationships between the races, a young white South African police lieutenant must struggle alone against the censure of an inflexible society, his family, and himself.

For millions of readers worldwide, Alan Paton''s books have vividly described life in contemporary South Africa. Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful revolves around the everyday experiences of a group of men and women whose lives reflect the human costs of maintaining a racially divided society. Writing at the peak of his powers, Paton delivers a masterpiece.

An anthology of short stories, poems, essays and speeches; the writings run the range from Christian hope of overcoming injustice to deep feelings of paralysis and sterility. Chronologically arranged, they are divided into sections corresponding to Paton''s life interests: penal reform, literature and opposition to apartheid, first within, and then outside the Liberal Party. The speeches and articles often refer to martyrdom; the poems range from a humorous treatment of political self-censorship to the extraordinary 1946-47 ""The Prison House,"" a powerful statement of the so-called Bettelheim syndrome of identifying with the oppressor.

Based on the original edition; first published in 1946, actually 2 years before the South African government began to enact apartheid. Deals with the racial problems of South Africa in a very absorbing way through the life 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. Arguably the most deeply moving story about apartheid and racism ever written. A true classic. "The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time."-- The New Republic

Alan Paton''s novel tells the story of the South African people and their struggles in the wake of colonial rule.

In these reflections based on the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, the author addresses the hard questions which confront our lives.

Now, Alan Paton tells the story of his early life--the important years that shaped his character, making him all the more aware of the tensions and complexities of South African life. A story of tremendous moral courage.

Consists chiefly of essays first published in the periodical Contact from 1958-1966. "Appendix B: Checklist of The long view [essasy from Contact] by Alan Paton": p. 279-282.

Continues the first volume of the South African author''s autobiography beginning in 1948. Covers all of his writings and his political and personal life.

In a South African boys'' reformatory, an African boy and the white principal try to understand each other.