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This first comprehensive critical study of Keneally's work concentrates on his many novels, but covers plays and nonfiction as well. It also analyses the vexed and often bitter academic reception that Keneally has endured, which in turn illuminates crucial aspects of Australian cultural history, not least as regards the Aborigines and the republican movement. Thomas Keneally is the writer most attuned to the melodramatic temper and genius of Australian...
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"This book provides an introduction to the author's life, as well as a guided overview of his body of work. This text features an alphabetized, fully-annotated listing of major terms in the Carey canon. Additional features include a listing of headwords, a Carey history, 44 reading and writing topics, and bibliographies of primary and secondary sources and index"--Provided by publisher.
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Although Henry Kingsley spent little more than four years in Australia - from December 1853 to February 1858 - his novel The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn is among the best stories of station life in the heyday of the squatters, and his "colonial experience" coloured the remainder of his life. Kingsley was the son of an English clergyman. His elder brother, Charles, also a clergyman, was to achieve renown as the author of Westward Ho! and The Water...
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