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15 produkter
15 produkter
Del 78 - British Library Tales of the Weird
Terror Australis
Dark Tales from Down Under
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
133 kr
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Bunyips, boundary riders and bush-lurkers: just some of the horrors that populate these tales of the Antipodean uncanny.The Australian weird tradition may be a short one, but it’s as varied and rich as anything you’ll find in the Old World. Many of these tales – from the likes of Marcus Clarke, Sophie Osmond, Ernest Favenc and Mary Fortune – are written by strangers in a new land. Traditional European elements of the weird tale appear in new forms or are moulded afresh to a harsh new environment – the haunted house is no longer a rambling manor, but an abandoned shanty or rundown homestead; the ancient wood, the lair of evils and creatures from folklore, becomes the oppressively hot, fly-infested bush; and the windswept moor is the empty, endless Australian outback with its blood-read sands and emaciated myall trees. The anthology also includes Aboriginal voices, providing a very different take on the landscape and its horrors.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
400 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2023
231 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2024
522 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2011
324 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2011
327 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2008
356 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2009
457 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2011
288 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
292 kr
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For the Term of His Natural Life (1874) is a novel by Marcus Clarke. Inspired by a journey taken by the author to the penal colony of Port Arthur, Tasmania, the novel was originally serialized in The Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872. For its depictions of the brutality and inhumanity of Australia’s penal colonies, the novel has been recognized as a powerful realist novel and one of the first works of Tasmanian Gothic literature. In the year 1827, a young British aristocrat is implicated in the murder and robbery of Lord Bellasis, his birth father. Sent to Van Diemen’s Land, he changes his name to Rufus Dawes and steadies himself for life in some of the world’s most notorious penal colonies. On board the Malabar, which is also transporting the new commander of the settlement at Macquarie Harbour, a group of mutineers hatches a plan to take control of the ship. Although Dawes warns the Captain, the conspirators place responsibility for the attempted mutiny on his innocent shoulders, and his sentence is extended for the rest of his life. At Macquarie Harbor and later Port Arthur, Dawes is brutalized, isolated, and tortured, leaving him no choice but to plan his unlikely escape. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of His Natural Life is a classic of Australian literature reimagined for modern readers.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
205 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2018
900 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 138 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2018
346 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
543 kr
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