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THE OLD BRITISH TALES OF THE BUSH – 5 Intriguing Books of Australia (Illustrated): Stingaree, A Bride from the Bush, Tiny Luttrell, The Boss of Taroomba and The Unbidden Guest
THE OLD BRITISH TALES OF THE BUSH – 5 Intriguing Books of Australia (Illustrated): Stingaree, A Bride from the Bush, Tiny Luttrell, The Boss of Taroomba and The Unbidden Guest
THE OLD BRITISH TALES OF THE BUSH – 5 Intriguing Books of Australia (Illustrated): Stingaree, A Bride from the Bush, Tiny Luttrell, The Boss of Taroomba and The Unbidden Guest
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Australian outback had always fascinated the British colonial imagination when rags to riches stories of the British convicts and other social outcasts transformed the image of Australia as a gold digger's paradise (remember Abel Magwitch's story in Charles Dicken's Great Expectations?). This interaction which proved deadly for the aboriginal culture and population of Australia also impacted the British literature in a way that it had stories to tell of its incomprehensible wilderness and its inhabitants. This edition brings you an assorted collection of stories about the Australian outback and its people from the pen of a renowned British author – E. W. Hornung. Hornung had also lived and travelled in Australia for two years and unlike his contemporaries wrote a lot of stories with Australia in the background.
E. W. Hornung (1866–1921) was an English author and poet and also brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hornung is known for writing the A. J. Raffles series about a gentleman thief based on a deliberate inversion of the Sherlock Holmes series. Hornung dedicated his creation as a form of flattery to Doyle. Hornung's works are also remembered for giving insight into the social mores of late 19th and early 20th century British society.
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Release dateJun 13, 2016
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THE OLD BRITISH TALES OF THE BUSH – 5 Intriguing Books of Australia (Illustrated): Stingaree, A Bride from the Bush, Tiny Luttrell, The Boss of Taroomba and The Unbidden Guest
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Ernest William Hornung (1866 –1921) was a prolific English poet and novelist, famed for his A. J. Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late 19th century London. Hornung spent most of his life in England and France, but in 1883 he traveled to Australia where he lived for three years, his experiences there shaping many of his novels and short stories. On returning to England he worked as a journalist, and also published many of his poems and short stories in newspapers and magazines. A few years after his return, he married Constance Aimée Doyle, sister of his friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with whom he had a son. During WWI he followed the troops in French trenches and later gave a detailed account of his encounters in Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front. Ernest Hornung died in 1921.

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