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'Colomba talks about Australia's past in Thomas Keneally's novel Bring Larks and Heroes. Thomas Keneally's third novel, Bring Larks and Heroes, is among the most significant works of the 1960s to portray the penal society of Australia's past at "the world's worse end". Published during a time of deep social and cultural change in Australia, the book is an investigation of the mechanisms that lie at the foundation of an oppressively brutal society, in a world where the values of the "old" clash with, and are transformed by, the reality of the "new." The release of the novel marked a crucial moment in the life of its author by establishing him as a professional writer.' (Editor's abstract)
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Subjects:
- Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction 1995 single work criticism
- Bring Larks and Heroes 1967 single work novel
- 'Bring Larks and Heroes' : The Moral and the Dream 1977 single work criticism
- Conscience and Corruption : Thomas Keneally's Three Novels 1968 single work criticism
- Thomas Keneally and the Australian Novel : A Study of 'Bring Larks and Heroes' 1968 single work criticism
- Doing Research : (2) For Historical Novels 1975 single work criticism
- The Fatal Shore : A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 1987 single work non-fiction
- His Natural Life 1870-1872 single work novel
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