For the Term of His Natural Life
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- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2016
Summary
A masterpiece in style and scope, Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of His Natural Life is an ambitious tale of tragedy, redemption, and the ugliness and resilience of man.
Wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit, a young aristocrat is sent to pay his dues in Van Diemen’s Land. As a criminal in this new colony, Rufus Dawes is forced to endure tremendous suffering and inhumanity, from the baseless cruelty of those in power to the harsh brutalities of an untamed country. Y…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925355659 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925355659 |
| Author: | Marcus Clarke, Rohan Wilson |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 378g |
| Dimensions: | 46mm x 198mm x 130mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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‘Terrible and tragic, but seething with intense human life…A masterpiece.’
‘Terrible and tragic, but seething with intense human life…A masterpiece.’ * Canberra Times *
About The Author
Marcus Clarke
Marcus Clarke was born in 1846 in Kensington, London. At age seventeen Clarke left England for Australia, where his uncle was a county court judge. Despite an early career in banking, Clarke had begun to write professionally by 1867, penning stories for the Australian Magazine and working as a theatre critic for the Melbourne Argus. Commissioned by the Australian Journal to write a serial about convict life, Clarke produced his masterwork, His Natural Life. Republished as a novel in 1874 under the new title For the Term of His Natural Life, Clarke’s epic tale of crime and punishment was later distributed in Britain, America, Germany and many other countries.
Marcus Clarke died in Melbourne in 1881, aged thirty-five.
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