Glass manufacture History Fiction 19th century Australia.
Humor
Historiske romaner
Ascination for glass.
Fiction
The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight??Pictures.This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in??nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms--could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine become allied with a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. And only the prodigious imagination of Peter Carey could implicate Oscar and Lucinda in a narrative of love and commerce, religion and colonialism, that culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Oscar and Lucinda
Oskar i Lucynda
Oscar and Lucinda : based on the novel by Peter Carey
Historical fiction
Oscar e Lucinda : romanzo
Oscar & Lucinda
Oscar in Lucinda
A nervous Anglican minister teams up with a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate women.
Powieść australijska
History
Oscar y Lucinda
Een zich in het Sydney van de vorige eeuw afspelend liefdesverhaal van een goklustige Anglicaanse predikant en een rijke erfgename die is gefascineerd door glas.
Electronic books
Een zich in het Sydney van de negentiende eeuw afspelend liefdesverhaal van een goklustige Anglicaanse predikant en een rijke erfgename die is gefascineerd door glas.
Oscar and Lucinda (FF classics)
Advance copies (Publishing)
Set on board an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour de force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass.
Oscar and Lucinda movie tie-in edition
Set on board an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour de force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a f.
Oscar og Lucinda
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Tatvina, ljubezenska zgodba
Authors' autographs (Provenance)
Oscar is a young English clergyman and gambler. Lucinda is a young woman from the country who is driven by dreams of self-reliance and and the building of an industrial utopia. Together, in mid-nineteenth century Australia, they pursue a grand, visionary scheme.
Oscar and Lucinda [braille]
Romance fiction
Winner of the 1988 Booker Prize - Talking book of the year award 1988 - Foundation for Australian literary studies award 1989 - Miles Franklin award 1989 - NBC Banjo award - Adelaide festival award 1990; This title is also available as a film.
A rebellious Anglican priest and a teenaged heiress who buys a glass factory in Australia pursue an unlikely romance.
Oscar e Lucinda
This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms--could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine become allied with a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. And only the prodigious imagination of Peter Carey could implicate Oscar and Lucinda in a narrative of love and commerce, religion and colonialism, that culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback.
Oscar ja Lucinda
Authors' inscriptions (Provenance)
"Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. Together this unlikely pair create and are created by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia. Peter Carey's visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion."
Aust'n. AU Author. Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed ...Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning novel is a brilliant achievement - a moving love story and a historical tour de force that is also powerfully contemporary.
Australia - Social life and customs - 1975- Fiction.
Brirish and Irish drama (Dramatic works by one author).
Gambling History Fiction 19th century Australia.
Krščansko življenje Avstralija 19.st. V leposlovju.