"Nearly half a century ago, a young Australian journalist without a newspaper decided to try his hand at writing a novel.
He was Brian Fitzpatrick, who was later to win public notice as an historian, as a radical polemicist and lobbyist on the fringe of the Labour movement, and as first General Secretary of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties.
Yet The Colonials is far more a psychological novel than a social panorama or a story with a plot. It was surely the first Australian novel to capture the nuance of a school-teacher s condition underpaid, conscious of moral superiority to his more vulgar and less well-informed neighbours, resentful of his low standing in a society differentiated by income or appearances more than intelligence or respectability. There is ample plunder here for social historians of the more predatory sort."
- ISBN:
- 9780522864472
- 9780522864472
-
Category:
- Historical Fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
-
02-09-2013
- Publisher:
- Melbourne University Press
- Country of origin:
- Australia
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions (mm):
- 198x133x25mm
- Weight:
- 0.35kg
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