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Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author ’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.  \nCopyright 1948 by Alan Paton  \nTo Aubrey & Marigold Burns of Fairfax, California  \nNote on the 1987 Edition  \nCry, the Beloved Country, though it is a story about South Africa, was not written in that country at all. It was begun in Trondheim, Norway, in September 1946 and finished in San Francisco on Christmas Eve of that same year. It was first read by Aubrey and Marigold Burns of Fairfax, California, and they had it put into typescript and sent it to several American publishers, one of them being Charles Scribner ’s Sons. Scribners senior editor, Maxwell Perkins, accepted it at once.  \nPerkins told me that one of the most important characters in the book was the land of South Africa itself. He was quite right. The title of the book confirms his judgment.  \nHow did it get that title? After Aubrey and Marigold Burns had read it, they asked me what I would call it. We decided to have a little competition. We each took pen and paper and each of us wrote our proposed title. Each of us wrote Cry, the Beloved Country. Where did the title come from? It came from three or four passages in the book itself, each containing these words. I quote one of them:  \nCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain ora valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.  \nThis passage was written by one who indeed had loved the earth deeply, by one who had been moved when the birds of his land were singing. The passage suggests that one can love a country too deeply, and that one can be too moved by the song of a bird. It is, in fact, a passage of poetic license. It  \noffers no suggestion as to how one can prevent these things from happening. What kind of a book is it? Many other people have given their own answers to this question, and I shall give my own, in words written in another book of mine, For You Departed, published, also by Charles Scribner’s Sons, in the year 1969 (published in London by Jonathan Cape with the title Kontakion for You Departed ) .  \nSo many things have been written about this book that I would not add to them if I did not believe that I know best what kind of book it is. It is a song of love for one’s far distant country, it is informed with longing for that land where they shall not hurt or destroy in all that holy mountain, for that unattainable and ineffable land where there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, for the land that cannot be again, of hills and grass and bracken, the land where you were born. It is a story of the beauty and terror of human life, and it cannot be written again because it cannot be felt again. Just how good it is, I do not know and I do not care. All I know is that it changed our lives. It opened the doors of the world to us, and we went through. And that is true. The success of Cry, the Beloved Country changed our lives. To put it in materialistic terms, it has kept us alive ever since. It has enabled me to write books that cost more to write than their sales could ever repay. So I wr","cbCaie7h6RC5n9Z0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaie7h6RC5n9Z0","pdf",983042,260,"English","# Note on the 1987 Edition\n## Origin and title of the book\n## What kind of book it is\n# Note on the 1959 Edition\n## Demographics and apartheid context\n## Changes in leadership\n# Note on the 1948 Edition\n## Setting and fictional disclaimer\n## Real persons referenced","[{\"question\":\"How does Alan Paton say the title Cry, the Beloved Country was chosen?\",\"answer\":\"Paton explains that the title came from three or four passages in the novel containing those words, and that he and Aubrey and Marigold Burns proposed the same title during a friendly competition.\"},{\"question\":\"What does Paton claim the book’s central character or subject is?\",\"answer\":\"Paton says that one of the most important characters is South Africa itself, and that the title confirms this judgment.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the 1987 edition note describe the writing and early publication process?\",\"answer\":\"Paton states the novel was begun in Trondheim in September 1946, finished in San Francisco on Christmas Eve, then first read by Aubrey and Marigold Burns, who sent it to American publishers including Charles Scribner’s Sons.\"},{\"question\":\"What clarification does the 1948 edition note provide about real people and places?\",\"answer\":\"Paton notes that the story is fiction: persons, characters, places, and incidents are either imagined or used fictitiously, and only two real individuals are referenced in the text.\"}]","Cry - The Beloved Country - Author’s Note - 1948 | PDF",400]