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De Marcus Clarke

În Londra secolului al XIX-lea, Sir Richard Devine este condamnat pentru o crimă pe care nu a comis-o și deportat în cumplitele colonii penitenciare din Tasmania de astăzi. Luându-și un alt nume, ca să nu păteze reputația mamei sale, el descoperă la sosirea în Tasmania o lume subumană, în care legea o fac trădarea, cruzimea și sălbăticia, iar singura alinare este prezența diafană a Sylviei, soția nemilosului căpitan Frere. Dar când se ivește ocazia, este oare evadarea posibilă? Mâna destinului se întinde uneori dincolo de puterea noastră de înțelegere. „Un roman despre crimă și pedeapsă, despre capriciile sorții, despre puterea iubirii și a vinovăției, dar mai ales despre abisurile cruzimii.“ Australian Book Review

• Limbă: Română
• Editor: ALLFA
• Data lansării: 23 mai 2016
• ISBN: 9789737249951

Marcus Clarke

Marcus Clarke (1846-1881) was an Australian novelist, journalist, poet, and librarian. Born in London, Clarke was educated at Highgate School, where he was a classmate of poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins. Orphaned in 1862, Clarke emigrated to Australia the following year. After toiling as a bank clerk in Melbourne, he moved to a remote station along the Wimmera River and learned the art of farming. In 1867, having published several stories for the Australian Magazine, Clarke found steady work with The Argus and The Australasian back in Melbourne, gaining a reputation as a popular journalist of urban life. In 1870, after taking a trip to Tasmania to report on the status of the nation’s penal colonies, Clarke began publishing his novel For the Term of His Natural Life (1874) in serial installments in The Australian Journal. The work was quickly recognized as a classic of Australian literature, earning its author comparisons to such literary titans as Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Towards the end of his life, Clarke worked as an assistant librarian at the Melbourne Public Library—now the State Library Victoria—where many of his manuscripts, notebooks, letters, and diaries are held today.