Ernest Favenc (1845–1908)
Auteur de The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
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Œuvres de Ernest Favenc
Marooned in Australia 5 exemplaires
What The Rats Brought 3 exemplaires
A Haunt Of The Jinkarras 2 exemplaires
Spirit-led 1 exemplaire
The Stories Of Ernest Favenc, Volume I 1 exemplaire
The Stories Of Ernest Favenc, Volume III 1 exemplaire
The Stories Of Ernest Favenc, Volume IV 1 exemplaire
The Stories Of Ernest Favenc, Volume V 1 exemplaire
The Stories Of Ernest Favenc, Volume VI 1 exemplaire
The Stories Of Ernest Favenc, Volume VII 1 exemplaire
Voices of the Desert 1 exemplaire
The Stories Of Ernest Favenc, Volume II 1 exemplaire
The Boundary Rider's Story 1 exemplaire
The Red Lagoon 1 exemplaire
On The Island Of Shadows 1 exemplaire
Doomed 1 exemplaire
The Lady Ermetta 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Australian Gothic: An Anthology of Australian Supernatural Fiction (2007) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
Australian nightmares : more Australian tales of terror and the supernatural (2008) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
The Second Christmas Megapack: 29 Modern and Classic Christmas Stories (2012) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Anthropologica Incognita: Wild Men, Strange Apes, and Fantastic Races in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (2009) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1845-10-21
- Date de décès
- 1908-11-14
- Sexe
- male
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Australia
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 26
- Aussi par
- 12
- Membres
- 74
- Popularité
- #238,154
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 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.… (plus d'informations)