Ernest Favenc (1845–1908)
Autor de The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Ernest Favenc
Marooned in Australia 5 copias
What The Rats Brought 3 copias
A Haunt Of The Jinkarras 2 copias
Spirit-led 1 copia
Voices of the Desert 1 copia
The Boundary Rider's Story 1 copia
The Red Lagoon 1 copia
On The Island Of Shadows 1 copia
Doomed 1 copia
The Lady Ermetta 1 copia
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Australian Gothic: An Anthology of Australian Supernatural Fiction (2007) — Contribuidor — 20 copias
Australian nightmares : more Australian tales of terror and the supernatural (2008) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
The Second Christmas Megapack: 29 Modern and Classic Christmas Stories (2012) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Anthropologica Incognita: Wild Men, Strange Apes, and Fantastic Races in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (2009) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1845-10-21
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1908-11-14
- Género
- male
- País (para mapa)
- Australia
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 26
- También por
- 12
- Miembros
- 74
- Popularidad
- #238,154
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 17
Frankly, the white men are their own worst enemies, constantly scheming against each other to keep valuable finds to themselves, often murdering their companions in cold-blooded and cowardly ways. Vengeance often comes from ghostly encounters, although a few attempts to even the score by more mundane methods still usually result in death for both parties. (There are a lot of white men to hate here.)
Along the way, we get some interesting details of the ways of the bushmen and a sense for the alien emptiness of Australia’s hostile wilderness, where death from dehydration or starvation always lurks in the background.
We also get a really funny piss-take on Christmas romance stories in “The Lady Ermetta; or, The Sleeping Secret: A Sensational Novelette in Three Parts, with an Orthodox Christmas Introduction”; the humorous “The Girl Body-Stealer”, “An Unquiet Spirit”, and ‘M’Whirter’s Wraith”; and a chilling apocalypse in “What the Rats Brought”.
I was surprised by how modern the prose felt—mostly very straightforward language and matter-of-fact dialogue (although there were a few sentences whose grammar was twisty enough to require a couple of extra readings to make sure I’d parsed them correctly).
I also feel like I have to mention the haphazard editing. It’s clear from some of the misspellings that the text is based on a scanned copy of the stories, and the thoroughness of the proofing clearly decreases as we near the end of the collection, sometimes resulting in confusion.
Overall, I enjoyed this (hopefully less-than-wholly accurate) portrayal of late-nineteeth through early twentieth century Australia, and you might as well.… (más)