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Alan Paton

Born

in Pietermaritzburg, colony of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

January 11, 1903

Died

April 12, 1988

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Noted South African writerAlan Stewart Patonof novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) and Too Late the Phalarope (1953) in 1953 founded the Liberal party and led it to 1968.

People educated him. He taught at a school in Ixopo, where he started his career and met and married his first wife. The dramatic career change to director of a reformatory for black youths at Diepkloof near Johannesburg profoundly affected his thinking. The publication made him best known. This searing account of the inhumanity of apartheid, told in a lyrical voice, which emphasizes love of Paton for the land and people of South Africa and his expectation for a change in the future. People most recognize title of this world bestseller from this country. Paton ...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 78,889 ratings · 5,260 reviews ·105 distinct works •Similar authors

	Cry, the Beloved Country 3.92 avg rating — 76,035 ratings — published 1948 — 282 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Too Late the Phalarope 3.88 avg rating — 1,516 ratings — published 1953 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful 3.97 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 1981 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from a Troubled Land 3.77 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 1961 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Debbie Go Home 3.65 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1961 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Instrument of Thy peace: The Prayer of St. Francis really liked it4.00 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1969 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Towards the Mountain 3.65 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1980 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope Tales from a Troubled Land by Alan Paton, Connor P. Hartnett 3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kontakion for you departed 3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ha’ Penny 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

tags: complaining, love

514 likes

“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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August 2016 New School Group Read

1939,And Then There Were NonebyAgatha Christie,264 pages

45 votes, 25.7%

1950,Strangers on a TrainbyPatricia Highsmith,281 pages

20 votes, 11.4%

1966,Wide Sargasso SeabyJean Rhys,176 pages

17 votes, 9.7%

1931,The WavesbyVirginia Woolf,297 pages

16 votes, 9.1%

1997,American PastoralbyPhilip Roth,432 pages

16 votes, 9.1%

1980,A Confederacy of DuncesbyJohn Kennedy Toole,416 pages

15 votes, 8.6%

1963,The CollectorbyJohn Fowles,282 pages

12 votes, 6.9%

1931,The Good EarthbyPearl S. Buck,418 pages

9 votes, 5.1%

1990,PossessionbyA.S. Byatt,555 pages

8 votes, 4.6%

1996,The BeachbyAlex Garland,436 pages

5 votes, 2.9%

1948,Cry, the Beloved CountrybyAlan Paton,320 pages

4 votes, 2.3%

1949,The Way WestbyA.B. Guthrie Jr.,352 pages

4 votes, 2.3%

1942,The RobebyLloyd C. Douglas,528 pages

3 votes, 1.7%

1924,Precious BanebyMary Webb,328 pages

1 vote, 0.6%

175 total votes

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