{"product_id":"9780522864472","title":"Colonials","description":"Author: Brian Fitzpatrick\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780522864472\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Melbourne University Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Sep 2013\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly half a century ago, a young Australian journalist without a newspaper decided to try his hand at writing a novel.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n He was Brian Fitzpatrick, who was later to win public notice as an historian, as a radical polemicist and lobbyist on the fringe of the Labour movement, and as first General Secretary of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Yet \u003ci\u003eThe Colonials\u003c\/i\u003e is far more a 'psychological' novel than a social panorama or a story with a plot. It was surely the first Australian novel to capture the nuance of a school-teacher's condition-underpaid, conscious of moral superiority to his more vulgar and less well-informed neighbours, resentful of his low standing in a society differentiated by income or appearances more than intelligence or respectability. There is ample plunder here for social historians of the more predatory sort.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47242120560798,"sku":"HPC-9780522864472","price":46.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780522864472.jpg?v=1780361099","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780522864472","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}