THE OLD BRITISH TALES OF THE BUSH – 5 Intriguing Books of Australia (Illustrated) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Stingaree, A Bride from the Bush, Tiny Luttrell, The Boss of Taroomba and The Unbidden GuestBy E. W. Hornung
Length31h 39m
About this audiobook
The Old British Tales of the Bush gathers five of E. W. Hornung's Australian fictions into an illustrated panorama of colonial life, romance, danger, and moral testing. Written in a late-Victorian idiom of brisk narration, irony, and melodramatic suspense, these tales place English manners under the unsettling pressure of the bush. Hornung's Australia is both frontier and mirror: a landscape of bushrangers, stations, exile, courtship, and reinvention, shaped by imperial adventure fiction yet attentive to social ambiguity. Ernest William Hornung, best remembered as the creator of the gentleman-thief A. J. Raffles, drew upon formative years spent in Australia as a young man in the 1880s. Sent there partly for his health, he absorbed the textures of pastoral society, colonial speech, and the mythology of distance from Britain. His Australian writings precede and illuminate his later fascination with double lives, class performance, and the precarious ethics of survival. This collection is recommended to readers interested in colonial literature, Victorian popular fiction, and early literary representations of Australia. It offers entertainment, historical atmosphere, and a revealing study of how British imagination transformed the bush into a stage for identity, danger, and desire.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, Literary Classics
Length31 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 13, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE OLD BRITISH TALES OF THE BUSH – 5 Intriguing Books of Australia (Illustrated) (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5THE OLD BRITISH TALES OF THE BUSH – 5 Intriguing Books of Australia (Illustrated)
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6Stingaree: A Voice in the Wilderness (pt. 1)
7Stingaree: A Voice in the Wilderness (pt. 2)
8Stingaree: A Voice in the Wilderness (pt. 3)
9A Bride from the Bush (pt. 1)
10A Bride from the Bush (pt. 2)
11Tiny Luttrell (pt. 1)
12Tiny Luttrell (pt. 2)
13Tiny Luttrell (pt. 3)
14Tiny Luttrell (pt. 4)
15The Boss of Taroomba (pt. 1)
16The Boss of Taroomba (pt. 2)
17The Boss of Taroomba (pt. 3)
18The Unbidden Guest (pt. 1)
19The Unbidden Guest (pt. 2)
20The Unbidden Guest (pt. 3)
21Analysis
22Reflection
23Memorable Quotes
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