True History of the Kelly Gang
The unrivalled telling of the legend as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series.
As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over towns and defying authority.
Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist. There are no sentences like these in all Australian literature and yet they could only have grown from our soil.
True History of the Kelly Gang is an extraordinary work by Peter Carey, capturing the essence of Ned Kelly's life and legend in a unique narrative style.
The unrivalled telling of the legend as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series.
As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over towns and defying authority.
Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist. There are no sentences like these in all Australian literature and yet they could only have grown from our soil.
True History of the Kelly Gang is an extraordinary work by Peter Carey, capturing the essence of Ned Kelly's life and legend in a unique narrative style.
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The unrivalled telling of the legend as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series.
As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over towns and defying authority.
Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist. There are no sentences like these in all Australian literature and yet they could only have grown from our soil.
True History of the Kelly Gang is an extraordinary work by Peter Carey, capturing the essence of Ned Kelly's life and legend in a unique narrative style.
