The Graven Image A Tale of Two Hemispheres / E.W. Hornung ; Peter Rowland, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William), 1866-1921, author.

Contributor:

Project Muse, Content Provider.

Rowland, Peter, 1938- editor.

Series:

1880-1920 British authors series ; no. 31.

1880-1920 British authors series ; number thirty one

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (x, 209 pages).)

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016

Language Note:

English

Summary:

E.W. Hornung's first book, A Bride from the Bush, was greeted with acclaim in 1890. The critics were delighted by its freshness and originality but puzzled at having to wait until 1893 for a sequel. It may have seemed that the novelist was resting on his laurels. But "Willie" Hornung had, in fact, been hard at work in 1891 on an ambitious romance; he came within a hair's breadth of finishing it. Whether it was the upheaval resulting from a move to a different address, illness, or another insurmountable problem, the creative process suddenly stopped. That novel is The Graven Image, a sensitive, beautifully wrought narrative with much humour and drama and vivid descriptions of people and places alike, the action moving from a cheerless Midland town in England to the wide open spaces of southeast Australia. This is the second unfinished novel edited by Peter Rowland, the companion volume being His Brother's Blood: The Last (Unfinished) Novel, published by ELT Press in the fall of 2015. As with His Brother's Blood, Rowland rounds off The Graven Image with speculation on how, at one level, it might have reached a resolution. Together these books are designed to celebrate in 2016 the 150th anniversary of Hornung's birth.

Contents:

Introduction

part one

I. A false prophet

II. Jeanette

III. Femina Furens

IV. "Sudden death"

V. The graven image

part two

I. Young Australia

II. Too highly strung

III. "Bushed"

IV. Appreciation

V. Mail day

VI. An important surrender

VII. A bushman's fancy

VIII. Henry Flood

X. Two girls together

Afterword.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-944318-76-2

OCLC:

935989745

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access