For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
Hardcover, good condition, rubbing to edges and spine, minor tanning and foxing to ends.
Publisher: MacMillan Company, London, 1926
Used - Good. pp.472; blue covers, black print to cover and spine;
Perhaps Australia's most significant and most famous 19th-century colonial novel, For the Term of His Natural Life is a narrative of great suffering-of whips, chains, and man's inhumanity. There is no attempt to soften the truth of the degradation and cruelty in convict Australia. Yet the novel is peopled with vivid characters-Rufus Dawes, condemned to transportation for a crime he did not commit, is one of the most unforgettable characters in Australian literature