Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country

Biographical sketch

The story behind the story

List of characters

Summary and analysis

Critical views

Horton Davies on inspiration

Sheridan Baker on the book as a kind of moral geography

Edmund Fuller on tragedy

Martin Tucker on the novel of forgiveness

Myron Matlaw on stylistic understatement

Robert L. Duncan on the suffering servant

J.M. Coetzee on simple language

Tony Adler on Cry, the beloved country and Lost in the stars

Carol Iannone on Paton's tragic liberalism

Mark Hestenes on Graham Greene and Alan Paton

Works by Alan Paton.