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giant in Australian Tales

YEAR
1896
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Not mapped
SOURCE
Project Gutenberg Australia
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giant in Australian Tales

etter abstain from reading this story, unless they choose to risk a nervous fever. The romance is full of power. The writer illuminates the lowest depths of human nature in a manner which holds us spell-bound, despite ourselves. Marcus Clarke is a master of psychology, and his descriptions of natur…

Record ID
2,269
Year
1,896
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
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Record context

Record ID
2269
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
Publication
Australian Tales; Marcus Clarke
Published
1896
Narrative type
Giant and Ogre Narratives
Public-text label
giant
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
Source voice
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Publicness
Public Domain Public Web

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etter abstain from reading this story, unless they choose to risk a nervous fever. The romance is full of power. The writer illuminates the lowest depths of human nature in a manner which holds us spell-bound, despite ourselves. Marcus Clarke is a master of psychology, and his descriptions of nature are as effective as his style is pure." And from no less a giant in literature than Oliver Wendell Holmes, of Boston, America, the following complimentary letter was received by Clarke in acknowledgment of a copy of the novel sent to the author of the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table:--"The pictures of life under the dreadful conditions.

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