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The main theme of The Beadle is neither the love of innocent Andrina du Toit for the irresponsible young Englishman who recuperates among the Boers of the Aangenaam Valley, nor the tragedy of the fathers' sins visited on their children. It is the poetic simplicity of the lonely life in an isolated Boer community.
With few but masterly strokes, Pauline Smith draws also the secondary characters of her novel: The ridiculous match-making postmistress, Tan' Linda and the bywoner, Jan Beyers, who cannot decide wtiher the bride with the sewing machine is preferable to another who will bring him three sheep.
Despite the subtle touches which set it so charmingly in period and place, The Beadle transcends time and place, for it deals with almost classical simplicity and grandeur with the eternal problems of guilt and remorse, love and sorrow.
Hard cover, good condition. The dust cover has minor scuffing at the edges. Some pencil markings throughout. 203 pages.
