For The Term Of His Natural Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: Unabridged Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: FEP missing
Condition remarks: DJ; edgeworn in mylar. Pages: fep missing; foxing on book block. All plates intact. Binding: slightly shaky; cracked hinges; boards - bumped corners.
One of the most harrowing and compelling novels to emerge from the Australian literary tradition, For the Term of His Natural Life chronicles the brutal odyssey of Rufus Dawes, a man unjustly transported to the penal colonies of Van Diemen's Land (modern-day Tasmania) in the nineteenth century, where he endures years of savage punishment, systemic cruelty, and unrelenting despair in a world that has stripped him of his identity and his freedom. Marcus Clarke constructs a panoramic indictment of the convict transportation system, drawing on meticulous historical research to present a narrative that is at once a gripping adventure and a devastating social critique, unflinching in its portrayal of institutional brutality and the resilience of the human spirit. First serialised between 1870 and 1872 and published in full novel form in 1874, Clarke's masterwork stands as the defining fictional account of Australia's convict era, a landmark text that shaped the nation's literary and cultural consciousness. Clarke writes with a fierce moral authority and a Dickensian command of character, weaving themes of injustice, identity, sacrifice, and redemption through a narrative so relentlessly propulsive that the reader is left questioning where civilisation ends and savagery begins.
Author: Marcus Clarke
Format: Hardback
Published: 1929, Angus & Robertson Ltd
Genre: Australian history
Edition: Unabridged Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: FEP missing
Condition remarks: DJ; edgeworn in mylar. Pages: fep missing; foxing on book block. All plates intact. Binding: slightly shaky; cracked hinges; boards - bumped corners.
One of the most harrowing and compelling novels to emerge from the Australian literary tradition, For the Term of His Natural Life chronicles the brutal odyssey of Rufus Dawes, a man unjustly transported to the penal colonies of Van Diemen's Land (modern-day Tasmania) in the nineteenth century, where he endures years of savage punishment, systemic cruelty, and unrelenting despair in a world that has stripped him of his identity and his freedom. Marcus Clarke constructs a panoramic indictment of the convict transportation system, drawing on meticulous historical research to present a narrative that is at once a gripping adventure and a devastating social critique, unflinching in its portrayal of institutional brutality and the resilience of the human spirit. First serialised between 1870 and 1872 and published in full novel form in 1874, Clarke's masterwork stands as the defining fictional account of Australia's convict era, a landmark text that shaped the nation's literary and cultural consciousness. Clarke writes with a fierce moral authority and a Dickensian command of character, weaving themes of injustice, identity, sacrifice, and redemption through a narrative so relentlessly propulsive that the reader is left questioning where civilisation ends and savagery begins.