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Imprint Classics: For the Term of His Natural Life

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Perhaps Australia's most significant and most famous 19th-century colonial novel<i>, For the Term of His Natural Life </i>is a narrative of great suffering-of whips, chains, and man's inhumanity. There is no attempt to soften the truth of the degradation and cruelty in convict Australia. Yet the novel is peopled with vivid characters-Rufus Dawes, condemned to transportation for a crime he did not commit, is one of the most unforgettable characters in Australian literature.

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Imprint Classics: For the Term of His Natural Life, Marcus Clarke, Laurie Hergenhan

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1993
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Title
Imprint Classics: For the Term of His Natural Life
Language
English
Released
1993
Format
Paperback
Pages
441
ISBN10
0207169012
ISBN13
9780207169014
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Perhaps Australia's most significant and most famous 19th-century colonial novel<i>, For the Term of His Natural Life </i>is a narrative of great suffering-of whips, chains, and man's inhumanity. There is no attempt to soften the truth of the degradation and cruelty in convict Australia. Yet the novel is peopled with vivid characters-Rufus Dawes, condemned to transportation for a crime he did not commit, is one of the most unforgettable characters in Australian literature.