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The classic novel of convict Australia, For the Term of His Natural Life is a narrative of enormous power, but also great suffering and inhumanity. There is no attempt made to soften the truth of degradation and cruelty of the convict existence, yet the novel is filled with life and peopled with unforgettable characters: Frere, the magnificent barbarian; Sarah Purfoy, aglow with colour and vitality, attracting men as moths to light; John Rex, the consummate villain ... And woven through the story is the golden thread spun from the faith and hope of Sylvia, the innocent child who loves the luckless Rufus Dawes, condemned to transportation for life for a crime he did not commit. First published in book form in 1874, For the Term of His Natural Life has been widely translated and adapted into film. It has appealed to successive generations of readers and is still regarded as Australia's most significant colonial novel.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9783734016189 |
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Publisher: | Outlook Verlag |
Publication date: | 09/22/2018 |
Pages: | 538 |
Product dimensions: | 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 1.20(d) |
About the Author
Marcus Clarke (1846-1881) was an Australian novelist, journalist, poet, and librarian. Born in London, Clarke was educated at Highgate School, where he was a classmate of poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins. Orphaned in 1862, Clarke emigrated to Australia the following year. After toiling as a bank clerk in Melbourne, he moved to a remote station along the Wimmera River and learned the art of farming. In 1867, having published several stories for the Australian Magazine, Clarke found steady work with The Argus and The Australasian back in Melbourne, gaining a reputation as a popular journalist of urban life. In 1870, after taking a trip to Tasmania to report on the status of the nation’s penal colonies, Clarke began publishing his novel For the Term of His Natural Life (1874) in serial installments in The Australian Journal. The work was quickly recognized as a classic of Australian literature, earning its author comparisons to such literary titans as Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Towards the end of his life, Clarke worked as an assistant librarian at the Melbourne Public Library—now the State Library Victoria—where many of his manuscripts, notebooks, letters, and diaries are held today.
Table of Contents
Introduction | ix | |
Preface | 1 | |
Prologue | 3 | |
Book 1 | The Sea - 1827 | |
1. | The Prison Ship | 15 |
2. | Sarah Purfoy | 23 |
3. | The Monotony Breaks | 32 |
4. | The Hospital | 36 |
5. | The Barracoon | 41 |
6. | The Fate of the Hydaspes | 48 |
7. | Typhus Fever | 58 |
8. | A Dangerous Crisis | 66 |
9. | Woman's Weapons | 74 |
10. | Eight Bells | 79 |
11. | Discoveries and Confessions | 89 |
12. | A Newspaper Paragraph | 93 |
Book 2 | Macquarie Harbour - 1833 | |
13. | The Topography of Van Dieman's Land | 97 |
14. | The Solitary of "Hell's Gates" | 101 |
15. | A Social Evening | 105 |
16. | The Bolter | 116 |
17. | Sylvia | 120 |
18. | A Leap in the Dark | 124 |
19. | The Last of Macquarie Harbour | 132 |
20. | The Power of the Wilderness | 138 |
21. | The Seizure of the Osprey | 145 |
22. | John Rex's Revenge | 152 |
23. | Left at "Hell's Gates" | 159 |
24. | "Mr." Dawes | 172 |
25. | What the Seaweed Suggested | 181 |
26. | A Wonderful Day's Work | 186 |
27. | The Coracle | 194 |
28. | The Writing on the Sand | 201 |
29. | At Sea | 206 |
Book 3 | Port Arthur - 1838 | |
30. | A Labourer in the Vineyard | 215 |
31. | Sarah Purfoy's Request | 228 |
32. | The Story of Two Birds of Prey | 239 |
33. | "The Notorious Dawes" | 248 |
34. | Maurice Frere's Good Angel | 257 |
35. | Mr. Meekin Administers Consolation | 262 |
36. | Rufus Dawes's Idyll | 268 |
37. | An Escape | 273 |
38. | John Rex's Letter Home | 277 |
39. | What Became of the Mutineers of the Osprey | 287 |
40. | A Relic of Macquarie Harbour | 301 |
41. | At Port Arthur | 304 |
42. | The Commandant's Butler | 309 |
43. | Mr. North's Indisposition | 314 |
44. | One Hundred Lashes | 323 |
45. | Kicking Against the Pricks | 329 |
46. | Captain and Mrs. Frere | 334 |
47. | In the Hospital | 339 |
48. | The Consolation of Religion | 343 |
49. | "A Natural Penitentiary" | 347 |
50. | A Visit of Inspection | 351 |
51. | Gathering in the Threads | 361 |
52. | Running the Gauntlet | 374 |
53. | In the Night | 381 |
54. | The Flight | 388 |
55. | The Work of the Sea | 393 |
56. | The Valley of the Shadow of Death | 406 |
Book 4 | Norfolk Island - 1846 | |
57. | Extracted from the Diary of the Rev. James North | 417 |
58. | The Lost Heir | 429 |
59. | Extracted from the Diary of the Rev. James North | 441 |
60. | Extracted from the Diary of the Rev. James North | 449 |
61. | Mr. Richard Devine Surprised | 454 |
62. | In Which the Chaplain is Taken Ill | 459 |
63. | Breaking a Man's Spirit | 467 |
64. | Extracted from the Diary of the Rev. James North | 472 |
65. | The Longest Straw | 477 |
66. | A Meeting | 483 |
67. | Extracted from the Diary of the Rev. James North | 491 |
68. | The Strange Behaviour of Mr. North | 495 |
69. | Mr. North Speaks | 501 |
70. | Getting Ready for Sea | 507 |
71. | The Discovery | 517 |
72. | Fifteen Hours | 523 |
73. | The Redemption | 526 |
74. | The Cyclone | 532 |
Epilogue | 538 | |
Appendix | 539 |
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