Statistics for The theme of despair in a selection of English South African fiction : a study of mood and form in Olive Schreiner's The story of an African farm, William Plomer's Turbott Wolfe, Pauline Smith's The Beadle, Alan Paton's Cry , the beloved country, Doris Lessing's The grass is singing, Dan Jacobson's The trap and A dance in the sun (and stories from Through the Wilderness and "The stranger" from A long way from London [and other stories]), Nadine Gordimer's The conservationist and J.M. Coetzee's In the ...