The Dickens boy
Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England's most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself, or at least fail out of the public eye. He soon finds himself in the remote Outback, surrounded by Aboriginals, colonials, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Even on the other side of the world, Edward encounters the same rabid veneration of his father that exists in England. But Edward has a secret: he has never read a single word of his father's beloved writing. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various livestock, bushrangers, shifty stock agents, and frontier battles.
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Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton > Fiction. Australia > History > 19th century > Fiction. |
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Historical fiction. Audiobooks. Sound recordings. |
- ISBN: 9781797131016
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Physical Description
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12 audio discs (14.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. - Edition Unabridged.
- Publisher [United States] : Penguin Random House, [2022]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. GMD: sound recording. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by David Tredinnick. |