The Village Hampden
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Usual aging. Shelf wear.
A celebrated work of Australian rural fiction, The Village Hampden chronicles the lives and conflicts of ordinary people in the farming communities of New South Wales, drawing on the rich tradition of bush storytelling that defined mid-twentieth-century Australian literature. E. O. Schlunke, one of Australia's most underappreciated short story writers, presents a cast of stubborn, proud, and deeply human characters whose small-town dramas illuminate the broader tensions of rural life — between tradition and change, community and individualism. Written with dry wit and an unsentimental eye, the stories capture the rhythms of agricultural existence with both affection and sharp social observation. Schlunke's prose is deceptively simple, yet each tale carries a quiet moral weight that lingers long after the final page.
Author: E. O. Schlunke
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Fiction
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Usual aging. Shelf wear.
A celebrated work of Australian rural fiction, The Village Hampden chronicles the lives and conflicts of ordinary people in the farming communities of New South Wales, drawing on the rich tradition of bush storytelling that defined mid-twentieth-century Australian literature. E. O. Schlunke, one of Australia's most underappreciated short story writers, presents a cast of stubborn, proud, and deeply human characters whose small-town dramas illuminate the broader tensions of rural life — between tradition and change, community and individualism. Written with dry wit and an unsentimental eye, the stories capture the rhythms of agricultural existence with both affection and sharp social observation. Schlunke's prose is deceptively simple, yet each tale carries a quiet moral weight that lingers long after the final page.