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"At the world's end, it is Sunday afternoon in February. Through the edge of the forest a soldier moves without any idea he's caught in a mesh of sunlight and shade. Corporal Halloran's this fellow's name. He's a lean boy taking long strides through the Sabbath heat."
"This novel is set in a penal colony in the South Pacific in the late 18th century."
"This novel is set in a remote British penal colony in the 1790s. It gives an insight into the settlement of hungry transports and corrupt soldiers, and tells the story of Corporal Phelim Halloran, and the demands made on him - by superior officers and, most often, by his conscience."
"A South Pacific penal colony in the late eighteenth century. An honest man named Phelim Halloran and Ann Rush, his secret bride. Poet, soldier, lover and grand innocent, Halloran must confront his destiny in a place of tyranny and searing horror. This edition includes an introduction by Geordie Williamson. Thomas Keneally was born in 1935 in country New South Wales to Irish Catholic parents. He won the Miles Franklin Award in consecutive years for his novels Bring Larks and Heroes (1967) and Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968). He was the first Australian ever to win the Booker Prize, in 1982, for Schindler's Ark. In 1983, Keneally became a member of The Order of Australia and in 1997 was named as an Australian Living Treasure. Geordie Williamson is chief literary critic of the Australian, a position he has held since 2008. His essays and reviews have been appearing in newspapers and magazines here and in the UK for over a decade. In 2011, he won the Pascall Prize for criticism. textclassics.com.au 'The long-sought Great Australian novel.' Australian 'Keneally is one of our greatest ... He is Australia's Balzac; author of its Human Comedy.' Peter Pierce."

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"Powieść australijska"
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"Historical fiction"
"Australian fiction"
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"Bring Larks And Heroes: Text Classics"
"Bring larks and heroes : a novel"
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"Bring larks and heroes"
"Bring Larks and Heroes"

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