Charged with murder, but fearful of causing his family a scandal, Rufus Dawes declines to prove his innocence and submits to transportation to the penal colony in Australia

His Natural Life (Penguin English Library, El51)

Literature & Fiction

CLARKE, Marcus

Literary

Penguin Classics

The main focus of this great convict novel is the complex interaction between those in power and those who suffer, made meaningful because of it's hero's wrongful imprisonment. Elements of romance, incidents of family life and passages of scenic description both relieve and give emphasis to the tragedy that forms its heart.

For The Term Of His Natural Life

Penguin Australia

One of the greatest 19th-century Australian novels and the grand epic of the transportation system, this novel charts the misfortune of Richard Divine, falsely accused of murder, through the worst Australian penal settlements, while retaining his humanity and spiritual dignity. So powerful is Clarke's representation of the brutality of transportation that more than a century later historians still struggle to disentangle fact from tragic fiction.

His Natural Life (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Oxford University Press

For the Term of His Natural Life

Short Stories & Anthologies

Angus and Robertson

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

For the term of his natural life

Bowker & Bertram

Angus&Robertson

Perhaps Australia's most significant and most famous 19th-century colonial novel, For the Term of His Natural Life is a narrative of great suffering-of whips, chains, and man's inhumanity. There is no attempt to soften the truth of the degradation and cruelty in convict Australia. Yet the novel is peopled with vivid characters-Rufus Dawes, condemned to transportation for a crime he did not commit, is one of the most unforgettable characters in Australian literature.

Essays & Correspondence

HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited

London &c. : Angus & Robertson

For the Term of His Natural Life.

Lloyd O'Neil

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