LIBROS DEL AUTOR: price warung

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  • Half Crown Bob and Tales of the Riverine (Esprios Classics)
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    William Astley (1855-1911), was an Australian short story writer who wrote under the pseudonym Price Warung. Astley was an excellent journalist and short story writer. He had made a study of early Australian history and took great care with his stories. There is a degree of starkness about his work, but his tales are full of human nature and human pity. He was connected with th...
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    23,69 €

  • Tales of the Early Days
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    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, such as ’Secret Society of the Ring’, set in the penal colony of Norfolk Island. Warung’s stories are filled with imaginative truth and ’symbolic veracity’, though he draws on documentary fact and social realism. This new editio...
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    19,02 €

  • Half-Crown Bob
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    Half-Crown Bob is the longest work of fiction by Price Warung (1855-1911), one of colonial Australia’s most popular writers. An affectionate character study of a 'new chum' with a mysterious past who becomes universally beloved on the Victorian goldfields, Half-Crown Bob illustrates the pain of emigration in colonial times, the depths of filial loyalty and the redeeming nature ...
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    19,18 €

  • Selected Tales of Price Warung
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    Price Warung (1855-1911) was one of colonial Australia’s most popular fiction writers. This selection showcases the best of Warung’s gruesome tales of Australia’s penal settlement founding and sardonic yarns of early steamboat traffic on the Murray River, and includes The Secret Society of the Ring, a novella set on Norfolk Island, the darkest corner of the convict system. With...
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    17,41 €

  • Tales of Australian Early Days
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    Title: Tales of Australian Early Days.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collect...
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    26,18 €

  • Tales Of The Convict System (1892)
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    Tales of the Convict System is a book written by Warung and Price in 1892. The book is a collection of stories that shed light on the harsh realities of the Australian convict system during the 19th century. The stories are based on the authors’ personal experiences and observations of the convict system. The book is divided into four parts, each focusing on a different aspect ...
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    30,09 €