The Dickens Boy - Softcover
- PublisherPenguin Books Australia
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1760893196
- ISBN 13 9781760893194
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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The Dickens Boy
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Penguin Books Australia, Hawthorn
(2020)
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ISBN 13: 9781760893194
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 392 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is some light reading wear. Seller Inventory # 201506
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The Dickens Boy
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In this joyful novel, our narrator is Charles Dickens's tenth child, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn. Sent, as his brother Alfred had been before him, at sixteen years of age, to Australia to learn to 'apply himself'. We follow his early Australian adventures in outback NSW learning to become a man from the most diverse and toughest of men. Part of Dickens' motivation was to separate these younger of his children from the Dickens family schism, where Charles had expelled his wife from the family home, keeping her sister Georgie there to run the household and taking up with the actress Ellen Tiernan. Plorn arrived in Melbourne in late 1868 carrying a terrible secret. He has never read a word of his father's work. After a very brief stopover he is sent out to become a gentleman stockman on a 2000 square mile station in remotest, semi-arid parts of NSW. Here he inevitably gets enmeshed with Paakantji, colonists, colonial-born, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Plorn did not expect he would encounter the same veneration of his father and familiarity with his work in Australia that was rampant in England. Against this backdrop, and featuring cricket tournaments, horse-racing, bushrangers, sheep droving, shifty stock and station agents, frontier wars and first encounters with Australian women we follow Plorn, and sometimes his brother Alfred, through wonderful adventures as he works to apply himself. This is Tom Keneally in his most familiar terrain. Taking historical figures and events and reimagining them with verve, compassion and humour. It is a romp. 392 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction; Australian::Australian Fiction. ISBN/EAN: 9781760893194. Inventory No: 268217. Seller Inventory # 268217
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Seller Inventory # ABE-1632888476006
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