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10 produkter
Anthology Of Australian Colonial Gothic Fiction
Häftad, 2007
396 kr
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This anthology collects the best examples of Australian gothic short stories from colonial times. Demonic bird cries, grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate a colonial landscape which is the stuff of nightmare. In stories by Marcus Clarke, Mary Fortune and Henry Lawson, …
Force and Fraud
A Tale of the Bush
Av Ellen Davitt, Ken Gelder m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
231 kr
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Force and Fraud
A Tale of the Bush
Av Ellen Davitt, Rachael Weaver m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
244 kr
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A bad-tempered squatter is murdered in country Victoria and the local townsfolk are swept up in the rush to solve the crime. Will the squatter's beautiful daughter, Flora McAlpin, save her lover from the gallows? Or is the circumstantial evidence against him too strong? Ellen Davitt's Force and …
Australian Bush Track
Av J. D. Hennessey, Rachael Weaver m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
239 kr
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An Australian Bush Track (1896) is a dark novel, a colonial fantasy-adventure by author J.D. Hennessey in the style of H. Rider Haggard’s She . The story of an expedition into the Queensland interior by a group of speculators hot on the trail of fabulous wealth, its heroine is a charismatic young …
The Colonial Journals: And the Emergence of Australian Literary Culture
Häftad, 2014
727 kr
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Colonial Australian Fiction
Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy
Häftad, 2017
404 kr
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Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of character types appeared – and disappeared – in Australian literature. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies’ developing sense of identity; others were more ephemeral. But all had a role to play in shaping and reflecting the social …
Anthology Of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction
Häftad, 2008
396 kr
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Ex-convicts, bushrangers, ruthless gold prospectors, forgers and impostors, thieves and murderers: they all flow through the stories that make up this collection, challenging colonial law and order. The landscape itself can seem to stimulate criminal activity, where identities change at will and …
Anthology Of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction
Häftad, 2010
396 kr
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The best examples of colonial Australian romance are collected in this anthology, from writers such as Ada Cambridge, Rosa Praed, Francis Adams, Henry Lawson, and many others. These fascinating stories show the many different outcomes of romance: happiness and marriage in some cases, loneliness and …
Anthology Of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction
Av Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
396 kr
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Marauding bushrangers, lost explorers, mad shepherds, new chums and mounted troopers: these are some of the characters who populate the often perilous world of colonial Australian adventure fiction. Squatters defend their hard-earned properties from attack, while floods and other natural disasters …
Colonial Adventure
Häftad, 2024
224 kr
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Adventure was one of the grand narratives of colonisation, which saw European powers sending agents off to new and distant worlds. But their journeys didn't always go in a straight line. Some adventurers to Australia were shipwrecked, lost or marooned. Others tried to escape the colony as soon as …
