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Set on board an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour de force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass.
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Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
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- Released
- 1997
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- Title
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter Carey
- Publisher
- Faber Faber
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 528
- ISBN10
- 0571192920
- ISBN13
- 9780571192922
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Religious Topics, Love, Classics, 19th century, Adapted for Film, Australia, Australian Literature, Colonialism, Sydney, Booker Prize
- First published
- 1988
- Original title
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- Set on board an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour de force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass.