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18 de jun. de 2008 · For the term of his natural life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop, 1846-1881. Publication date 1899 Publisher London, Macmillan Collection cdl; americana ... English. viii, 472 p. 20 cm Published also under title: His natural life Addeddate 2008-06-18 18:35:38 Call number nrlf_ucb:GLAD-17062640 Camera Canon 5D Collection-library nrlf_ucb
Disinherited and driven from his home in England when he discovers the secret of his true parentage, young Richard Devine (Colin Friels, Malcolm) changes his name to Rufus Dawes but is then falsely accused of murdering his real father. Transported to the notorious Port Arthur in Van Diemen’s land “for the term of his natural life”, Dawes ...
Written by Polly Barbour. Richard Devine is a British aristocrat. The son of wealthy ship-building magnate - or so it is thought - Richard's life changes when his mother reveals to his father during an episode of domestic abuse that Richard is not his son. Lord Bellasis is Richard's biological father.
Other articles where His Natural Life is discussed: Australian literature: The century after settlement: Marcus Clarke’s His Natural Life (1874; the antecedent phrase For the Term of was inserted without authority after his death) is the first novel regarded as an Australian classic. It is a powerful account of the convict experience, drawing heavily on documentary sources.
28 de may. de 2015 · For the Term of His Natural Life – a revised, tighter and shorter version of Rufus Dawes’s story which, in this iteration, becomes a tragic one – was published in book form in 1874. A dense prologue sets the labyrinthine plot moving: the innocent Richard Devine, ‘enmeshed’ in ‘a web of circumstantial evidence’, becomes Rufus Dawes, and his ‘new life’ begins.
29 de jun. de 2009 · Scarcely out of print since the early 1870s, For the Term of His Natural Life has provided successive generations with a vivid account of a brutal phase of colonial life.The main focus of this great convict novel is the complex interaction between those in power and those who suffer, made meaningful because of its hero's struggle against his wrongful imprisonment.
For the term of his natural life : Marcus Clarke's immortal Australian classic adapted and panel illustrated by Peter Foster. Clarke, Marcus and Foster, Peter. Published by Greenhouse Publications, Richmond, 1986. ISBN 10: 0864360215 ISBN 13: 9780864360212. Seller: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australia.
