Tales of the Early Days
Author: Price Warung
ISBN: 9781920899059
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Year first published: 03 Sep 2009
Pages: 183
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781920899059
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Year first published: 03 Sep 2009
Pages: 183
Format: Paperback / softback
Tales of the Early Days (1894) is a collection of historical tales primarily concerned with the social abuses of the convict system of early Australia, such as 'Secret Society of the Ring, set in the penal colony of Norfolk Island. Warungs stories are filled with imaginative truth and 'symbolic veracity, though he draws on documentary fact and social realism.