For the Term of His Natural Life (Text Classics)

Clarke, Marcus

ISBN 10: 1925355659 / ISBN 13: 9781925355659

Published by Text Pub Co

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: For the Term of His Natural Life (Text Classics)
• Publisher: Text Pub Co
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925355659
• ISBN 13: 9781925355659
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Wrongfully convicted, a young aristocrat is sent to the penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land. There he is forced to endure tremendous suffering, from the cruelty of those in power to the harsh untamed country. Dawes remains determined to clear his name, no matter the trials that come his way.

About the Author

Born in 1846, Marcus Clarke left London for Australia aged 17. As a writer, commissioned to pen a serial about convict life, he produced this masterwork. Republished as a novel in 1874, his epic tale of crime and punishment was distributed in Britain, USA, Germany and elsewhere. He died aged 35.

Rohan Wilson: Author of two novels: The Roving Party (2011), which won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and a Tasmanian Literary Prize; and To Name Those Lost (2014), which won a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and an Adelaide Festival Award. He grew up in Tasmania and lives in Queensland.