The Sentimental Bloke And Other Verses
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Few works have captured the larrikin soul of working-class Australia with such warmth and wit as C.J. Dennis's beloved verse narrative. Set in the back streets of Melbourne in the early twentieth century, The Sentimental Bloke and Other Verses chronicles the life of Bill, a rough-hewn but tender-hearted street tough, as he tumbles head-over-heels for a girl named Doreen and finds himself navigating the bewildering, redemptive terrain of love, marriage, and fatherhood — all rendered in the irresistible Australian vernacular of the era. First published in 1915, the collection became an immediate and extraordinary publishing sensation, selling hundreds of thousands of copies and cementing Dennis's place as one of Australia's most cherished poets. Drawing on the tradition of bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson while charting his own distinctly urban and comic course, Dennis illustrates the humanity beneath the bluster of the everyday Australian male with disarming tenderness and razor-sharp humour. Chosen and introduced here by Alec H. Chisholm — himself the author of The Making of a Sentimental Bloke — this collector's edition presents an essential cornerstone of the Australian literary canon, one that leaves the reader wondering whether Bill's simple, hard-won happiness is, in the end, the most radical achievement of all.
Author: C.J. Dennis
Format: Hardback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Few works have captured the larrikin soul of working-class Australia with such warmth and wit as C.J. Dennis's beloved verse narrative. Set in the back streets of Melbourne in the early twentieth century, The Sentimental Bloke and Other Verses chronicles the life of Bill, a rough-hewn but tender-hearted street tough, as he tumbles head-over-heels for a girl named Doreen and finds himself navigating the bewildering, redemptive terrain of love, marriage, and fatherhood — all rendered in the irresistible Australian vernacular of the era. First published in 1915, the collection became an immediate and extraordinary publishing sensation, selling hundreds of thousands of copies and cementing Dennis's place as one of Australia's most cherished poets. Drawing on the tradition of bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson while charting his own distinctly urban and comic course, Dennis illustrates the humanity beneath the bluster of the everyday Australian male with disarming tenderness and razor-sharp humour. Chosen and introduced here by Alec H. Chisholm — himself the author of The Making of a Sentimental Bloke — this collector's edition presents an essential cornerstone of the Australian literary canon, one that leaves the reader wondering whether Bill's simple, hard-won happiness is, in the end, the most radical achievement of all.