Which of these is the title of a novel by Olive Schreiner (pictured)?

First published in 1883 under the pseudonym of Ralph Iron, "The Story of an African Farm" is the first and best-known novel of the South African writer Olive Schreiner (1855-1920).

It concentrates on the lives of three main characters - Waldo, Em, and Lyndall, and their lives, from childhood into adulthood, intertwined with the titular farm. It is set in the mid to late 19th century, but though the First Boer War would have been in progress at the end of the book, it is only referred to in passing, although Schreiner herself was a prominent anti-war campaigner.

However, the book was certainly seen as controversial! It displays a very ambivalent attitude to motherhood, rather than the unconditional glorification of it often seen in the 19th century novel, and charts the journey of Waldo from being a fundamentalist Christian to an equally dogmatic atheist.

A degree of humour, though of the gallows kind, is introduced through the splendidly named confidence trickster, Bonaparte Blenkins.

Perhaps inevitably, despite Schreiner's progressive views on other matters, the presentation of race, though by no means amongst the worse for its time nor prominent in the novel, does strike a jarring note the the modern reader.

The novel has been filmed only once, in 2004.