The Resource The Dickens boy, Tom Keneally
The Dickens boy, Tom Keneally
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Resource Information
The item The Dickens boy, Tom Keneally represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of his under-achieving sons tarnishing his reputation at home, Charles Dickens sent two of them to Australia. The tenth child of Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn, had consistently proved unable 'to apply himself ' to school or life. So aged sixteen, he is sent, as his brother Alfred was before him, to Australia. Plorn arrives in Melbourne in late 1868 carrying a terrible secret. He has never read a word of his father's work. He is sent out to a 2000-square-mile station in remotest New South Wales to learn to become a man, and a gentleman stockman, from the most diverse and toughest of companions. In the outback he becomes enmeshed with Paakantji, colonists, colonial-born, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Plorn, unexpectedly, encounters the same veneration of his father and familiarity with Dickens' work in Australia as was rampant in England. Against this backdrop, and featuring cricket tournaments, horse-racing, bushrangers, sheep droving, shifty stock and station agents, frontier wars and first encounters with Australian women, Plorn meets extraordinary people and enjoys wonderful adventures as he works to prove himself. This is Tom Keneally in his most familiar terrain. Taking historical figures and events and reimagining them with verve, compassion and humour. It is a triumph."--Publisher's website
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 392 pages
- Isbn
- 9781760893194
- Label
- The Dickens boy
- Title
- The Dickens boy
- Statement of responsibility
- Tom Keneally
- Subject
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- trueBritish in Australia
- trueColonial Australia (1788-1901) -- 1788 -- 1901
- trueDickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Family -- Fiction
- trueFrontier and pioneer life
- trueHistorical fiction
- Immigrants -- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- true19th century -- 1801 -- 1900
- trueRural life
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- trueSecrets
- trueWilderness areas -- Australia
- trueImperialism
- trueAustralia -- History -- 19th century
- trueAustralian fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of his under-achieving sons tarnishing his reputation at home, Charles Dickens sent two of them to Australia. The tenth child of Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn, had consistently proved unable 'to apply himself ' to school or life. So aged sixteen, he is sent, as his brother Alfred was before him, to Australia. Plorn arrives in Melbourne in late 1868 carrying a terrible secret. He has never read a word of his father's work. He is sent out to a 2000-square-mile station in remotest New South Wales to learn to become a man, and a gentleman stockman, from the most diverse and toughest of companions. In the outback he becomes enmeshed with Paakantji, colonists, colonial-born, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Plorn, unexpectedly, encounters the same veneration of his father and familiarity with Dickens' work in Australia as was rampant in England. Against this backdrop, and featuring cricket tournaments, horse-racing, bushrangers, sheep droving, shifty stock and station agents, frontier wars and first encounters with Australian women, Plorn meets extraordinary people and enjoys wonderful adventures as he works to prove himself. This is Tom Keneally in his most familiar terrain. Taking historical figures and events and reimagining them with verve, compassion and humour. It is a triumph."--Publisher's website
- Summary
- The tenth child of Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn, had consistently proven unable 'to apply himself' to school or life. So he is sent, as his brother Alfred had been before him, at sixteen years of age, to Australia.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10847968
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1935-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Keneally, Thomas
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dickens, Charles
- Immigrants
- Secrecy
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Dickens boy, Tom Keneally
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066187751
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 392 pages
- Isbn
- 9781760893194
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1125078666
- Label
- The Dickens boy, Tom Keneally
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066187751
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 392 pages
- Isbn
- 9781760893194
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1125078666
Subject
- trueBritish in Australia
- trueColonial Australia (1788-1901) -- 1788 -- 1901
- trueDickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Family -- Fiction
- trueFrontier and pioneer life
- trueHistorical fiction
- Immigrants -- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- true19th century -- 1801 -- 1900
- trueRural life
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- trueSecrets
- trueWilderness areas -- Australia
- trueImperialism
- trueAustralia -- History -- 19th century
- trueAustralian fiction
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Lionel Bowen Library and Community CentreBorrow it669-673 Anzac Parade, Marouba, NSW, 2035, AU-33.938111 151.237977
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Malabar Community LibraryBorrow it1203 Anzac Parade, Matraville, NSW, 2036, AU-33.962293 151.245961
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Margaret Martin LibraryBorrow itLevel 1, Royal Randwick Shopping Centre, Randwick, NSW, 2031, AU-33.9151421 151.2408898
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