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Alan Paton


Born
in Pietermaritzburg, Colony of Natal
January 11, 1903

Died
April 12, 1988

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Alan Stewart Paton was a South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 82,294 ratings · 5,682 reviews · 103 distinct works • Similar authors
Cry, the Beloved Country
3.93 avg rating — 79,294 ratings — published 1948
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Too Late the Phalarope
3.88 avg rating — 1,602 ratings — published 1953 — 64 editions
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Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful
3.97 avg rating — 577 ratings — published 1981 — 27 editions
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Tales from a Troubled Land
3.79 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 1961 — 17 editions
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Debbie Go Home
3.65 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1961 — 13 editions
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Instrument of Thy peace: Th...
4.01 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1969 — 22 editions
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Towards the Mountain
3.63 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1980 — 9 editions
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Kontakion for you departed
3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings — 7 editions
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3.81 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions
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Ha’ Penny
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“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton
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“I have always found that actively loving
saves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society.”
― Alan Paton
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“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
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Polls

August 2016 New School Group Read

 
  44 votes, 25.4%

 
  20 votes, 11.6%

1966, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 176 pages
 
  17 votes, 9.8%

1931, The Waves by Virginia Woolf, 297 pages
 
  16 votes, 9.2%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages
 
  16 votes, 9.2%

 
  14 votes, 8.1%

1963, The Collector by John Fowles, 282 pages
 
  12 votes, 6.9%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  9 votes, 5.2%

1990, Possession by A.S. Byatt, 555 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.6%

1996, The Beach by Alex Garland, 436 pages
 
  5 votes, 2.9%

1948, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, 320 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1949, The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr., 352 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1942, The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas, 528 pages
 
  3 votes, 1.7%

1924, Precious Bane by Mary Webb, 328 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.6%

173 total votes
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