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  Cloete, Stuart --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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South African novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Stuart Cloete is known for his vivid narratives and characterizations in African settings.
Stuart's hard-riding troopers formed a screen between Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate forces and the Union armies.
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 Cloete, Stuart - Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
CLOETE, (Edward Fairlie) Stuart (Graham) (1897-1976), South African novelist and short-story writer, was born in Paris to a Scottish mother and a South African father, educated privately by a governess, then at schools in England and France, and served in the First World War.
A prodigious writer of the epic, action-packed adventure story, Cloete wrote fourteen novels, of which the best remembered now are The Curve and the Tusk (1952), Rags of Glory (1963), set during the Anglo-Boer war, and How Young They Died (1969).
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 Words of a Prophet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
However, the same Jan Smuts, not only prohibited distribution of the prophecies during World War 2, but when a friend of the Boer Prophet, Boy Mussmann, tried to publish them secretly, he was attacked by the police in the streets of Vryburg (a town near the Botswana border) and the visions confiscated.
Cloete devoted a whole chapter on Van Rensburg's visions.
Because of the controversial nature of his visions, the old Boer Prophet is today (more than 70 years after his death) still the centre of many heated debates.
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 AllRefer.com - South African literature (South African Literature) - Encyclopedia
Roy Campbell is known as a South African poet, although he lived in England after 1926.
Besides numerous other works, Stuart Cloete wrote Turning Wheels (1939), a story of the Great Trek, which was made into a film in the United States.
Other internationally known works include H. Morton's In Search of South Africa (1948) and Episode in the Transvaal (1955) by Harry Bloom, who also wrote the book for the first all-African opera, King Kong (1958).
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 Cloete, Stuart --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Edward Fairly Stuart Graham Cloete was born on July 23, 1897, in Paris, France.
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Behind that screen Lee secretly moved his armies at will.
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 Cloete, Stuart - South African novelist and short-story writer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Cloete, Stuart - South African novelist and short-story writer
CLOETE, (Edward Fairlie) Stuart (Graham) (1897-1976), South African novelist and short-story writer, was born in Paris to a Scottish mother and a South African father,...
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 ePier - CONGO SONG by Stuart Cloete, 1943 Novel, WWar II Background
CONGO SONG by Stuart Cloete, 1943 Novel, WWar II Background
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 Esquire Magazine,November 1951 - Ray Bradbury , Stuart Cloete & Others
Esquire Magazine,November 1951 - Ray Bradbury, Stuart Cloete & Others
Author Name: Ray Bradbury, Stuart Cloete & Others
The Nov. 1951 issue of Esquire features ''The Immortality of Horror'' by Bradbury, a western by Fisher & short story by Cloete.
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 Cloete, Stuart - Watch ... Dawn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO. May have some hi-lighting/marking and wear.
Cloete, Stuart; Watch For The Dawn:: London, Reprint Society, 1940.
Covers are slightly marked, spine faded, block edges spotted, endpapers browned, name and date 1940 on fep, occasional spots to pages throughout.
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 Cloete, Stuart - Abductors
Description: Hardback, G/NDJ, 437 pp., light corner bumping, a little boards soiling, a little boards fading, a little edge rubbing, a little surface rubbing, light pages yellowing.
It is a novel whose scope, relentless social scrutiny, and sheer readability are likely to bring Stuart Cloete far more readers than have any other of his best-selling novels.
Dustjacket soiled and severely chipped along the edges and the folds.
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