| Description |
vi, 206 pages ; 19 cm |
| Series |
A & R classics |
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Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 1884-1969.
Australian classics
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& R classics
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| Summary |
Coonardoo is the moving story of a young Aboriginal woman trained from childhood to be the houskeeper at Wytaliba station and destined to look after its owner, Hugh Watt. After the death of his mother, only Coonardoo's love breaks through Hugh's greif, but desite his feeling for her, and the son , she bears him, he marries a white woman. The love between Coonardoo and Hugh, which so shocked it readers when the book was first published, it never acknowledge and so, degraded and Twisted in on itself, destory not only Coonardoo, but also a once peaceful community---back cover |
| Analysis |
Novels in English. Australian writers, 1890-1945. Texts |
| Notes |
First published, London: Cape, 1929 |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction.
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Australian fiction.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Australia -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0207132178 |
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0207134790 |
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