Oscar and Lucinda

Type

Book

Authors

Laura Jones

ISBN 10

0571192556

ISBN 13

9780571192557

Tags

anglais, english, fiction, Historical, australia

Abstract

Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. Together this unlikely pair create and are created by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia.

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