Talk:Alan Paton

message: I am profoundly shocked and upset that this site has been subject to so much vandalism - like shitting on your grandmother's carpet!! I have endeavoured to restore something like the original (pre-vandalism) version - and stndardised capitalisation a bit from the "shout" all-caps form!! 
Soundofmusicals 05:48, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: Many paragraphs from this site seem to be exact word-for-word replice\as from another online biography of Alan Paton, http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/apaton.htm.  If this page has been copied from another website, it should be fixed or removed immeadietly.  Could someone check this apparent plagerism?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.55.40.102 (talk) 16:35, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism

message: I have removed the Finnish titles of the novels - it did not seem to be any reason apart from the origin of the page having come from a Finnish source. Hope this OK.
--217.43.192.181 (talk) 15:53, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Finnish Novel Titles

message: Why is there no critique against him? --41.14.118.198 (talk) 11:56, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critique 

message: "...There are other Afrikaners, too, who are led by their consciences and not by rules, and regulations promulgated by a faceless, monolithic parliament." (from Post-Colonial African Writers, ed. by Pushipa Naidu Parekh and Siga Fatima Jagne, 1998)..."
Can we just leave out such pathetic phrasing and replace this with some more neutral wording? --41.151.241.113 (talk) 14:45, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  pathetic phrasing 

message: I have been reading the page on Alan Paton, author of Cry, the beloved country.  It states that he completed the book in San Francisco in December 1946. = quote from page "During his time in Norway, he began work on his seminal novel Cry, The Beloved Country, which he completed over the course of his journey, finishing it on Christmas Eve in San Francisco in 1946.[1]" This cannot be true because I am holding  Penguin Modern Classics copy of the book which has the following:  Copyright Alan Paton 1944, first published Jonathan Cape, 1944, First published in Penguin Books 1958., reprinted 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 (twice) 1969. No ISBN Number. This probably needs to be corrected on the Alan Paton pages please.. 
There  is no ISBN number in the Penguin Modern Classics copy and the details page does NOT specify the exact edition.
But I assume it may be a 1969 version because the frontispiece includes the note that the Liberal Party in South Africa was disbanded in May 1968 'under persistent official pressure' 
But this version was printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney ltd, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK, and set in Linotype.
Front Cover illustration: detail from 'Three Boys' by Marianne Podlashuc (photo by UCA studios)  
Back cover: Sold in UK for 20 p = 4/-, Australia $0.70, New Zealand $0.65, South Africa R0.50, For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in the USA or Canada - details from back cover.
So what now?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.71.50.98 (talk) 19:20, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update needed for the publication etc. of Cry, The Beloved Country 

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message: Every publication I've seen about Alan Paton's work has this work titled as "The Waste Land", not "The Wasteland". It is also not a narrative poem. Is this a confusion between Paton's and T.S. Elliot's work?  Seokzine (talk) 18:21, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Waste Land