{"product_id":"9780798158404","title":"The Complete Oom Schalk Lourens Stories","description":"The entire sequence of Bosman’s famous Oom Schalk Lourens stories, in one volume for the first time. Edited from authoritative sources, and accompanied by original illustrations, this gathering represents a feast of South Africa’s best-loved tales. The sixty pieces include all-time favourites like “In the Withaak’s Shade”, “Makapan’s Caves” and “Willem Prinsloo’s Peach Brandy”, the Boer War classics “Mafeking Road” and “The Rooinek”, as well as several lesser-known treasures.   “Bosman’s Oom Schalk Lourens is a literary creation without equal in South African literature. Precedents there are aplenty, to be sure . . ., but no storyteller figure looms as large in the popular imagination as Oom Schalk. His famous boast, “. . . I can tell the best stories of anybody in the Transvaal . . .” (“Mafeking Road”, 1935), has gone unchallenged for the seventy years since it was first uttered.” – Craig MacKenzie","brand":"Human \u0026 Rousseau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47109100044528,"sku":"9780798158404","price":28.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780798158404_p0.jpg?v=1763726287","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780798158404","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}