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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 · 81,799 ratings · 5,612 reviews · 133 distinct works • Similar authors
Cry, the Beloved Country
3.93 avg rating — 78,839 ratings — published 1948 — 273 editions
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Too Late the Phalarope
3.88 avg rating — 1,577 ratings — published 1953
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Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful
3.97 avg rating — 571 ratings — published 1981 — 27 editions
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Tales from a Troubled Land
3.79 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 1961 — 6 editions
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Debbie Go Home
3.65 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1961 — 14 editions
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Instrument of Thy peace: Th...
4.01 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1969 — 22 editions
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Towards the Mountain
3.66 avg rating — 50 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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3.83 avg rating — 35 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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