Grif: A Story of Australian Life

Grif: A Story of Australian Life

by B L Farjeon
Grif: A Story of Australian Life

Grif: A Story of Australian Life

by B L Farjeon
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Overview

In one of the most thickly populated parts of Melbourne city, where poverty and vice struggle for breathing space, and where narrow lanes and filthy thoroughfares jostle each other savagely, there stood, surrounded by a hundred miserable hovels, a gloomy house, which might have been likened to a sullen tyrant, frowning down a crowd of abject, poverty-stricken slaves. From its appearance it might have been built a century ago; decay and rottenness were apparent from roof to base: but in reality it was barely a dozen years old. It had lived a wicked and depraved life, had this house, which might account for its premature decay. It looked like a hoary old sinner, and in every wrinkle of its weather-board casing was hidden a story which would make respectability shudder. There are, in every large city, dilapidated or decayed houses of this description, which we avoid or pass by quickly, as we do drunken men in the streets.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781500680169
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 01/01/1900
Pages: 214
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.45(d)
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