For the Term of His Natural Life

for the term of his natural life

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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.

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So far the appearance of the vessel differed in nowise from that of an ordinary transport. But in the waist a curious sight presented itself. It was as though one had built a cattle-pen there. At the foot of the foremast, and at the quarter-deck, a strong barricade, loop-holed and furnished with doors for ingress and egress, ran across the deck from bulwark to bulwark. --This text refers to the Digital edition.

For the Term of His Natural Life

For the Term of His Natural Life,Marcus Clarke,HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited,020719839X,Classics,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,19th century fiction,Literary Collections / Essays

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