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Author : James Skipp Borlase
Release : 1867
Genre : Adventure stories, Australian
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Book Synopsis The Night Fossickers, and Other Australian Tales of Peril and Adventure by : James Skipp Borlase
Download or read book The Night Fossickers, and Other Australian Tales of Peril and Adventure written by James Skipp Borlase. This book was released on 1867. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ken Gelder
Release : 2011-08-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 419/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction by : Ken Gelder
Download or read book The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction written by Ken Gelder. This book was released on 2011-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 threaten to wipe any trace of settlement away. Colonial Australian adventure fiction takes its characters on a journey into remote and unfamiliar territory, often in pursuit of wealth and well-being. But these journeys are invariably fraught with danger, and everything comes at a price. This anthology collects the best examples of colonial Australian adventure fiction, with stories by Ernest Favenc, Louis Becke, Rosa Praed, Guy Boothby, and many others. Also available in this series: The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction The Anthology of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction
Author : Ken Gelder
Release : 2008-07-01
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 988/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction by : Ken Gelder
Download or read book The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction written by Ken Gelder. This book was released on 2008-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the editors of The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction comes this fascinating collection of disturbing mysteries and gruesome tales by authors such as Mary Fortune, James Skipp Borlase, Guy Boothby, Francis Adams, Ernest Favenc, 'Rolf Boldrewood' and Norman Lindsay, among many others. In the bush and the tropics, the goldfields and the city streets, colonial Australia is a troubling, bewildering place and almost impossible to regulate—even for the most vigilant detective. Ex-convicts, bushrangers, ruthless gold prospectors, impostors, thieves and murderers flow through the stories that make up this collection, challenging the nascent forces of colonial law and order. The landscape itself seems to stimulate criminal activity, where identities change at will and people suddenly disappear without a trace. The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction is a remarkable anthology that taps into the fears and anxieties of colonial Australian life.
Author : Peter Rowland
Release : 2016-04-21
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 981/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Stingaree Rides Again by : Peter Rowland
Download or read book Stingaree Rides Again written by Peter Rowland. This book was released on 2016-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stingaree's adventures have long delighted thousands of readers. He is a stylish bushranger, his English origins cloaked in mystery, who operates in New South Wales. He is, after Raffles, the most famous character that E.W. Hornung (1866-1921) ever created. Virtually unknown, however, is the fact that twelve years after the original stories appeared Hornung started to write a fresh batch of tales, relating Stingaree's subsequent history. For various reasons, the project was abandoned but the batch of stories that he completed are now brought together in book-form for the very first time. Peter Rowland is a well-known historian and biographer. He recently transcribed and edited two of Hornung's unfinished novels, His Brother's Blood and The Graven Image, and compiled a fresh collection of Hornung short stories, Tall Tales and short'uns. A revised and much-expanded edition of his 1999 biography of Hornung will appear shortly. (For more information, see www.peterrowland.org.uk).
Author : L. Sussex
Release : 2010-07-16
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 401/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction by : L. Sussex
Download or read book Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction written by L. Sussex. This book was released on 2010-07-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to 'cherchez les femmes', in a project of rediscovery.
