Marcus Clarke For the Term of His Natural Life review, recensie en informatie roman uit 1874 over de gevangeis op Tasmanië. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman For the Term of His Natural Life van de uit de Australië afkomstige schrijver Marcus Clarke die in Engeland was geboren. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.
Marcus Clarke For the Term of His Natural Life recensie, review en informatie
- “Terrible and tragic, but seething with intense human life…A masterpiece.” (Canberra Times)
For the Term of His Natural Life
- Auteur: Marcus Clarke (Australië)
- Soort boek: roman over Tasmanië uit 1874
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Text Publishing
- Omvang: 512 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de roman van Marcus Clarke over Tasmanië
A masterpiece in style and scope, Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of His Natural Life is an ambitious tale of tragedy, redemption, and the ugliness and resilience of man.
Wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit, a young aristocrat is sent to pay his dues in Van Diemen’s Land. As a criminal in this new colony, Rufus Dawes is forced to endure tremendous suffering and inhumanity, from the baseless cruelty of those in power to the harsh brutalities of an untamed country. Yet, with enduring human spirit and unrelenting determination, Dawes remains ever desperate to clear his name, no matter the trials that come his way.
First published in 1874, Marcus Clarke’s vivid and brutal depictions of convict life have come to define our colonial history. Still beloved by readers today, For the Term of His Natural Life remains the most important Australian book of the nineteenth century, and a vital part of our cultural and literary identity.
Marcus Clarke was born in on 24 April 1846 in Kensington, London. At age seventeen Clarke left England for Australia, where his uncle was a county court judge. Despite an early career in banking, Clarke had begun to write professionally by 1867, penning stories for the 
Australian Magazine and working as a theatre critic for the Melbourne Argus. Commissioned by the Australian Journal to write a serial about convict life, Clarke produced his masterwork, His Natural Life. Republished as a novel in 1874 under the new title For the Term of His Natural Life, Clarke’s epic tale of crime and punishment was later distributed in Britain, America, Germany and many other countries. Marcus Clarke died in Melbourne on 2 August 1881, aged thirty-five.
