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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER - September
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Australiana
at Project Gutenberg of
Australia
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The
Australiana page at PGA (http://gutenberg.net.au/pgaus.html)
boasts many ebooks by Australian writers, or books about Australia. There is a
diverse range from the journals of the land and sea explorers to the early
accounts of white settlement in Australia to the fiction of 'Banjo' Paterson,
Henry Lawson and many other Australian writers.
This month's postings
include 'Quintus Servinton' by Henry Savery (1791-1842) (Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Savery),
first published in 1830. See http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700971h.html).
In
'A History of Australian Literature', H M Green notes that Savery was a convict
at the time of publication. He had been a well-known sugar broker in Bristol,
England, but got into debt and, in 1825, was transported for fraud. Green states
that "The cruel facts of degradation and disillusionment that lie at the back of
'Quintus Servinton', and its author's pitiful attempt to build up a glorified
image of what might conceivably have been himself and his story, give the book a
certain, though inconsiderable, interest even now." The main interest in the
book must, however, be the fact of its place as the first work of fiction
published in Australia.
Another of this month's postings, 'The Missing
Angel' (see http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701011.txt) by Erle Cox (1873-1950) (Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erle_cox)
is also listed on the Australiana page, as Cox was an Austrlaian writer and the
book was set in Melbourne. The book also finds a place on our SF page (http://gutenberg.net.au/sfproject.html)
as it is a work of Supernatural, or Speculative, Fiction. Far removed from the
theme of 'Quintus Servinton', 'The Missing Angel' concerns a pact with the devil
by the hero, Tydvil Jones. However, far from being a Faustian tragedy, this book
is a tale with a twist and, after a slow beginning, is quite entertaining in its
way.
LAST MONTH'S
POSTINGS
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-- AUGUST POSTINGS --
Aug 2007 The Missing
Angel, Erle Cox
[070101xx.xxx] 1554A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701011.txt
or zip
Aug 2007 The Safety Pin, Joseph S
Fletcher
[070100xx.xxx] 1553A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701001.txt
or .zip
Aug 2007 Mysteries and Adventures, Arthur Conan
Doyle [070099xx.xxx] 1552A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700991.txt
or .zip
Aug 2007 Columbus, Rafael
Sabatini
[070098xx.xxx] 1551A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700981.txt
or .zip
Aug 2007 Quintus Servinton, Henry
Savery
[070097xx.xxx] 1550A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700971.txt
or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700971h.html
Aug
2007 Kipps, H G
Wells
[070096xx.xxx] 1549A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700961.txt
or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700961h.html
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