{"product_id":"marcus-clarke-michael-wilding-9781922454430","title":"Marcus Clarke: Novelist, Journalist and Bohemian","description":"Michael Wilding's essays on Marcus Clarke's life and works, from his schooldays at Highgate with Gerard Manley Hopkins to membership of the Melbourne Bohemian Yorick Club with Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall, and his associations with the Chief of Police Captain Frederick Standish, the Irish nationalist politician and political prisoner Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, and the President of the Melbourne Public Library Sir Redmond Barry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssays on \u003ci\u003eHis Natural Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Clarke's classic novel of the convict system; on \u003ci\u003eChidiock Tichborne\u003c\/i\u003e the historical romp about the Catholic conspiracy to replace Elizabeth I on the English throne with Mary, Queen of Scots, and spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham's espionage operation to expose it; on \u003ci\u003eOld Tales of a Young Country\u003c\/i\u003e about the early years of European settlement and the brutalities of the convict system; on his journalism ranging from exposés of the lives of Melbourne's down and outs and homeless, to reminiscences of the Theatre Royal's \u003ci\u003eCafé de Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, and the spoof account of the Melbourne Cup written by aid of a camera obscura; on his literary essays, reviews and obituaries of Bret Harte, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Adam Lindsay Gordon; and on his short stories, ranging from realistic accounts of his up-country days on sheep stations and mining towns in the Wimmera, and speculations on the alternative futures of what life might have been, to sensational tales of Gothic horror, crime mystery, fantasies of opium dreams and mesmeric trances, and sophisticated literary experiment in his account of taking hashish, \u003ci\u003eCannabis Obscura\u003c\/i\u003e and the premature post-modernism of \u003ci\u003eThe Author Haunted by His Own Creations\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Wilding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1922454435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781922454430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Australian Scholarly Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Michael Wilding","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993303089407,"sku":"9781922454430","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ebcf707f-b689-48ec-bb26-afa91b5a8dfb.jpg?v=1683323637","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marcus-clarke-michael-wilding-9781922454430","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}