The Collected Works of Herman Charles Bosman - Bosman, Herman Charles (author); Lionel Abrahams (foreword)
The Collected Works of Herman Charles Bosman - Bosman, Herman in a Very Good Slipcase
Published: Jonathan Ball, Johannesburg, 1981
Edition: First
ISBN10: 0868500291
ISBN13: 9780868500294
Brown paper-board slipcase with pasted-down colour portrait of Bosman on one face and lettering on the other, laminated unclipped colour dustjackets, brown cloth-boards with black lettering to the upper panels and spines, plain endpapers, Vol 1 [vi]/723 pp, Vol 2 [vi]/594 pp
Overall Condition: Books and Slipcase Very Good
His work communicates a unique, poignant flavour that has touched the hearts of all South Africans. Here are the sounds and smells of the platteland, the rough voices, the open skies.Compelled by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the Western Transvaal, his wildness, subtlety, defiance and -playful dreaming caper through the pages……
About the author:
Herman Charles Bosman (1905 – October 14, 1951) was a South African writer and journalist who became famous for capturing the rhythms of backveld Afrikaans speech even though he wrote in English. He is widely regarded as the greatest short story writer to come out of South Africa. Many of his stories have a sting in the tail. He was born at Kuilsrivier, near Cape Town. While still young, his family moved to Johannesburg where he went to school at Jeppe Boys High School in Kensington. He was a contributor to the school magazine. When he was 16, he started writing amusing short stories for the national Sunday newspaper (the Sunday Times). He attended the University of the Witwatersrand submitting various pieces to student’s literary competitions.
