For the Term of His Natural Life

Marcus Clarke

ISBN 10: 1925355659 / ISBN 13: 9781925355659

Verlag: Text Classics August 2017, 2017

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 523067

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: For the Term of His Natural Life
• Verlag: Text Classics August 2017
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1925355659
• ISBN-13: 9781925355659
• Einband: Paper Back
• Zustand: Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Fiction & Mystery

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Inhaltsangabe

Wrongfully convicted, a young aristocrat is sent to the penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land. There he is forced to endure tremendous suffering, from the cruelty of those in power to the harsh untamed country. Dawes remains determined to clear his name, no matter the trials that come his way.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Born in 1846, Marcus Clarke left London for Australia aged 17. As a writer, commissioned to pen a serial about convict life, he produced this masterwork. Republished as a novel in 1874, his epic tale of crime and punishment was distributed in Britain, USA, Germany and elsewhere. He died aged 35.

Rohan Wilson: Author of two novels: The Roving Party (2011), which won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and a Tasmanian Literary Prize; and To Name Those Lost (2014), which won a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and an Adelaide Festival Award. He grew up in Tasmania and lives in Queensland.