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Chapters: Marcus Clarke, Richard Flanagan, Nan Chauncy, Louisa Anne Meredith, Rachael Treasure, Bertha Southey Brammall, Jessie Catherine Couvreur, John West, Christopher Koch, Norma Davis, Katherine Scholes, Martin Flanagan, Michael Ludeke. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard Flanagan (born 1961) is an author and film director from Tasmania, Australia. He was president of the Tasmania University Union and a Rhodes Scholar at Worcester College, Oxford. His brother is journalist Martin Flanagan. A fifth generation Tasmanian, Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania in 1961.. He as a child, he grew up in the mining town of Rosebery on Tasmania's western coast. Flanagan left school at the age of 16. He returned to study at the University of Tasmania, where he was president of the Student Union. He achieved a first class honours degree in 1982. In the following year was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. At Worcester College, Oxford, he was admitted to the degree of Master of Letters in History. In the foreword to Flanagan's 1985 publication, A Terrible Beauty - History of the Gordon, Bob Brown wrote, Australia has not heard the last of the Tasmanian wilderness nor, I happily predict, has it heard the last of Richard Flanagan. Holding a history degree, Flanagan wrote four non-fiction works before moving to fiction. His first novel, Death of a River Guide (1994), was short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award, as were his next two, The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997) and Gould's Book of Fish (2001). Two of his novels are set on the West Coast of Tasmania; where he lived in the township of Rosebery as a child. Death of a River Guide relates to the Franklin River, Gould's Book of Fish to the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, and The Sound of One Hand C...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1063090 ... Read more

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Title: Colonial Gothic: Morbid Anatomy, Commodification and Critique in Marcus Clarke's The Mystery of Major Molineux.(Critical Essay)
Author: ANDREW McCANN
Publication: Australian Literary Studies (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: 19Issue: 4Page: 399

Article Type: Critical Essay

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This digital document is an article from Australian Literary Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on May 1, 1997. The length of the article is 3123 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A composition called "The Demon," written by the convict Henry Rouse, may provide insight into Marcus Clarke's 'His Natural Life.' "The Demon" is Rouse's depiction of Norfolk Island administrator John Price, who is the basis for the character Frere in Clarke's novel. Rouse is believed to have written the essay, which presents a more menacing picture of Price, after reading Clarke's novel while in prison. There is speculation that Clarke and Rouse had contact in 1868, before the novel was written.

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Title: New light on the sources of 'His Natural Life.' (Marcus Clarke)
Author: Barry Smith
Publication: Australian Literary Studies (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1997
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: v18Issue: n1Page: p90(4)

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In the vein of Hugo, Dumas and Stevenson, this is a classic work of historical fiction.The exotic setting, the character development and the story line are all superb.This is a deep story of human suffering and love, conquest and domination.A true Tasmanian/Australian gem! ... Read more

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Contents

I. ”Mark Twain” On Marcus Clarke
II. Preface by Hamilton Mackinnon
III. Biography – by Hamilton Mackinnon
IV. Australian Scenery
V. Learning “Colonial Experience”
VI. Pretty Dick
VII. Poor Joe
VIII. Gentleman George’s Bride
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
IX. Bullocktown (Glenorchy)
X. Grumbler’s Gully
XI. Romance of Bullocktown
XII. How the Circus Came to Bullocktown
XIII. The Romance of Lively Creek
Chapter I - “Green Bushes”
Chapter II – The Mystery
Chapter III – The Sumpitan
XIV. King Billy’s Troubles: or Governmental Red-Tapeism
XV. Holiday Peak
XVI. ”Horace” in the Bush
XVII. Squatters Past and Present
XVIII. The Future Australian Race
Our Ancestors
Ourselves
Our Children

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I. ”Mark Twain” on Marcus Clarke

Mark Twain Lecture, Melbourne, Oct., 1895

I not only regret, but feel surprised that the ‘Selected Works’ of Australia’s only literary genius--a genius such as you will not see again for many a long year--should be out of print. Through the courtesy of his widow I obtained a copy of the work after failing to buy one anywhere.
And such a work, such reading, such power. It was just the sort of reading to banish from one’s thoughts such pain as I have been suffering.
The subjects so interesting, and their treatment so brilliant and fascinating. No works of such a man should be left unpublished. It is the duty of Australians to assist the widow of so great a writer in publishing his works. I may tell you that we think a deal more of Marcus Clarke in our country than I am sorry to think you do here. (Applause).




II. Preface

Hamilton Mackinnon

In placing this, the first volume of a cheap series of the miscellaneous works of the late MARCUS CLARKE before the Public of Australia, I venture to think that I am not only fulfilling my duty as his Literary Executor, but am removing a reproach which attaches to that Public in the eyes of such literary lights as Lord Rosebery, Sir Charles Dilke, “Mark Twain,” the late Oliver Wendell Holmes and others who have spoken and written in no stinted phrases as to Marcus Clarke’s position in the intellectual world, and expressed surprise at his works not being more popularly known among those on whom his genius has shed world-wide renown. To enable these works to come within the buying power of all classes, this series is being brought out at a price which no one should cavil about. It is therefore to be hoped that the people of these “new lands ‘cross the seas” will give an emphatic denial to the old world saying--”a prophet hath no honour in his own country.” In conclusion, grateful thanks are due to those who have rendered the publication of this book possible by assisting the author’s widow in the very practical manner of advertising in it; and of these let it be said:

“Cast thy bread upon the waters, for
Thou shalt find it after many days.”


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Other Books by Marcus Clarke by ADB Publishing
(The Original) Australian Tales (1896) (This Book)
(The Original) For the Term of his Natural Life
(The Original Four Stories High (1877)
(The Original) Human Repetends
(The Original) Long Odds (1869)
(The Original) Old tales of a Young Country (1871)
(The Original) The Haunted Author

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Excerpt:
TO WILLIAM SAURIN LYSTER.



THE ROMANCE OF LIVELY CREEK.
LA BEGUINE.
THE POOR ARTIST.
KING BILLY’S BREECHES.




“And what is the name of your Christmas Story Book?” asked my old friend, Tityrus Tallowfat, as we adjourned to the verandah.

“I am not going to publish one,” said I.

“You are getting lazy,” said Marston, flinging himself into the most capacious of the lounging chairs.

“Everybody is publishing a Christmas book,” said Falx, lighting his cigar with the first proof-sheet of his review upon one.

“And who is Everybody?”

“The universe generally: England, Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, France, and the still vexed Bermoothes. More immediately: Mr.
Walch, Mr. Whitworth, and the’Vagabond.’”

“I have promised to write both for Walch and the’Vagabond,’” said I.
“Whitworth usually writes his books himself.”

“And do you intend to keep your promise?” asked Marston. “I have not yet made up my mind. Probably not.”

“But that will not prevent you bringing out a book yourself,” said Falx.

“No. But I am sick of Christmas books. I tried to write one last year.
Indeed, I got as far as being paid in advance for it--and there I stuck.”

“Your admission justifies me in the belief which I have always privately had of you,” said Marston. “You are utterly without Moral Principle.”

“I have often been uncomfortably inclined to think so myself,” said I.
“But I will make a proposition.”

“A penny in the pound was the last one, wasn’t it?” growled Falx, under his breath; “and not accepted, I believe, by our numerous creditors.”

“Don’t, Falx,” said dear old Tallowfat; “we may all be offering a penny in the pound shortly if this Bursting Up Act becomes law.”

“No politics,” said Marston. “Let us hear what the gentleman has to say.”

“I was about to observe,” said I, “that I do know a story which seems to me to be rather curious and entertaining; I will tell it, and we shall see if it suggests any idea of another story to any of you.”

“So that you may get an original idea out of each of us,” said Marston, “and sell the same to your own profit. I have hopes of you. You are becoming a Man of Business.”

“And what may be Mr. Marston’s notions of man of business?”

“A man of business,” said Marston, oracularly, “is one who becomes possessed of other people’s money without bringing himself within the purview of the law.”

“But I haven’t got any original ideas,” cried Tallowfat, in alarm.

“No man ever sounded the depths of his own ignorance,” said Falx, coolly. “You are only a wealthy squatter, and little is expected from you.”

“Well,” said Marston, “the notion is novel. Pass one of the claret bottles and the cigars, and proceed.”

“The story which I have the honour to submit to you, gentlemen,” said I, “I have called the ROMANCE OF LIVELY CREEK. The claret is in the ice-chest, and the cigar-box on the cane-chair.”


More Reading:
Other Books by Marcus Clarke by ADB Publishing
(The Original) Australian Tales (1896)
(The Original) For the Term of his Natural Life
(The Original Four Stories High (1877) (This Book)
(The Original) Human Repetends
(The Original) Long Odds (1869)
(The Original) Old tales of a Young Country (1871)
(The Original) The Haunted Author

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So far the appearance of the vessel differed in nowise from that of an ordinary transport. But in the waist a curious sight presented itself. It was as though one had built a cattle-pen there. At the foot of the foremast, and at the quarter-deck, a strong barricade, loop-holed and furnished with doors for ingress and egress, ran across the deck from bulwark to bulwark. ... Read more

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For the Term of His Natural Life is a story of a British aristocrat who is suddenly disinherited and driven from his home in England only to find that he is falsely accused for a murder he did not commit.

Exiled to Australia to spend his remaining years as a convict he is driven to acts of degradation and horror as he struggles to survive.

This novel has everything from drama to romance and is a must read classic. ... Read more

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My Dear Sir Charles, I take leave to dedicate this work to you, not merely because your nineteen years of political and literary life in Australia render it very fitting that any work written by a resident in the colonies, and having to do with the history of past colonial days, should bear your name upon its dedicatory page; but because the publication of my book is due to your advice and encouragement.
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