Tales of the Early Days.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warung, Price, author.

Series:

Australian Classics Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language & Literature.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Tales of the Early Days (1894) is a collection of historical tales primarily concerned with the social abuses of the convict system of early Australia. Warung's stories are filled with imaginative truth and 'symbolic veracity', though he draws on documentary fact and social realism.

Contents:

Introduction Laurie HergenhanTales of the Early Days Note

1. Captain Maconochie's 'bounty for crime'

2. The Secret Society of the Ring

3. In the granary

4. Parson Ford's confessional

5. The heart-breaking of Anstey's Bess

6. The amour of Constable Crake

7. The pegging-out of Overseer Franke

8. At Burford's PanoramaAbout the author Selective bibliography of the published works of Price Warung.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Warung, Price Tales of the Early Days

ISBN:

9781743323021

1743323026

9781743327951

1743327951

OCLC:

1286498276