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Author Paton, Alan.

Title Knocking on the door : shorter writings / Alan Paton ; selected and edited by Colin Gardner.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, [1975]
©1975

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  828 PAT    Check Shelf
Description viii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Old Til -- Roy Campbell -- The hermit -- Faith -- Trilemma -- Sonnet -- Non-European offender -- This is my own, my native land -- Prison house -- Freedom as a reformatory instrument -- Juvenile delinquency and its treatment -- Bulstrode's daughter -- To Walt Whitman -- Only the child is no more -- Dancing boy -- On the death of J. H. Hofmeyr -- To a small boy who died at Diepkloof Reformatory -- In the Umtwalumi Valley -- Samuel -- Discardment -- Stock exchange -- I have approached -- Why I write -- Durban -- Could you not write otherwise? -- No place for adoration -- Psalm of the forest -- Meditation for a young boy confirmed -- The gift -- Laughing girls -- Black woman teacher -- Indian woman -- Christian unity : a South African view -- Sanna -- Anxiety song of an Englishman -- Joke -- We mean nothing evil towards you -- Piet van der Merwe goes to heaven -- My great discovery.
My sense of humour -- General -- Magistrate's daughter -- South African novel in English -- Some thoughts on the contemporary novel in Afrikaans -- Speech in America -- Praise song for Luthuli -- Chess in Yugoslavia -- Under threat of arrest -- Hero of Currie Road -- Interview with himself -- Quarry -- Sunlight in Trebizond Street -- Words to the security police -- Why we must go on dreaming -- Civil rights and present wrongs -- Problem of suffering -- Perfidy of Maatland -- Death of a priest -- Our two countries -- Case history of a Pinky -- Wage gap -- Memorial to Luthuli -- Hunger supper -- On turning 70 -- Caprivi lament -- Where are you going, Afrikaner? -- Noble piece of Afrikaans writing -- For Helen Suzman -- Eight signposts to salvation -- Pornography and censorship -- Roy Campbell : man and poet -- Gatsha Buthelezi -- Nature and ground of Christian hope today.
Subject Gardner, Colin Oxenham.
Added Author Gardner, Colin Oxenham.
ISBN 0684144298: $12.50
9780684144290
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