The translation was very good (unlike the cr*p we are served by some publishers today), although the original version I now own is much more authentic in its true 1840s style.A gripping story about one man that gets wrongly accused of murder and transported to the Antipodes. Read moreįirst review of this classic australian book on LT, and not by an Australian? Anyway, here goes:I read this book in a German translation (from an East-German publisher, complete with socialist commentary on the issue of transportation and penal colonies in a capitalist system). 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.
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. 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. 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. After toiling as a bank clerk in Melbourne, he moved to a remote station along the Wimmera River and learned the art of farming. Orphaned in 1862, Clarke emigrated to Australia the following year. Born in London, Clarke was educated at Highgate School, where he was a classmate of poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins. Marcus Clarke (1846-1881) was an Australian novelist, journalist, poet, and librarian.
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