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"Set in South Africa before the adoption of apartheid, Alan Paton's classic novel presents a family and a nation struggling to embrace change and resist the harmful effects of violence, apathy, and inequality. This new edition gathers a range of essential critical commentary on the work and features an introduction by scholar Harold Bloom." "Paton had a tragic grasp of the way good and evil are interwoven in human history. In Arthur Jarvis he created a character who understood the inevitability of civilizational progress and expansion and the conflict and loss that they bring. At the same time, Arthur insists that the colonizers take responsibility for the damage they have done.--Carol Iannone" "In Cry, the Beloved Country ... Paton is at pains to make clear that the mere verbalisation of liberal sentiments is not enough, and that these sentiments need to be accompanied by meaningful action at the level of the economic and political structures and conditions of society.--Andrew Foley" "Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations, a series of more than 100 volumes, presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels, and dramas of the Western world, fro

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Author

Harold Bloom (editor)

Publisher

Bloom’s Literary Criticism

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781604135831

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Education, Philosophy

Rating

3.63 / 5 (336 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14