This book fuses the symbolist poems in prose of Olive Schreiner with the illustrations created by the Swiss symbolist painter Carlos Schwab in 1913 for the publication of their French translation. It is retypeset in the sumptuous Grasset Roman type of that edition, complete with lettrines and ornamentations. Olive Schreiner was a South African writer who is today remembered largely for her novels of frontier life and her anti-war activity. Her early love of symbolist writing has been overshadowed by the more realist nature of her later work, and it is hoped that the richness of her prose poetry will be appreciated by a wider audience with this new edition.