The Forger's Wife

By:

John Lang

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Colonial Australian Popular Fiction

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John Lang was Australia's first locally born novelist, publishing early work in Sydney in the 1840s and going on to write several bestsellers. The Forger's Wife (1856) is a lively adventure novel, set in an unruly colonial Sydney where everyone is on the make. The forger's wife is a young woman who follows her rakish husband out to Australia and struggles to survive as her marriage falls apart. She soon meets detective George Flower, a powerful man with a cavalier sense of justice and retribution. Flower literally controls the fortunes of the colony: taking on the local bushrangers, instructing colonial authorities, and helping himself to the spoils along the way. First serialised in Fraser's Magazine in 1853, The Forger's Wife was popular in its day and was reprinted many times over. It is Australia's first detective novel - and most likely, the first detective novel in the Anglophone world. This edition includes an introduction by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver, and a translation of the appendix by Sophie Zins. 'It is a powerful, if occasionally painful, book. It sells even now in all the colonies and in England by the thousand...' 'Rolf Boldrewood on Australian Literature', The Advocate (Melbourne), 20 May 1893

Release date Australia

May 24th, 2017

Author

John Lang

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Introduction by Ken Gelder
Introduction by Rachael Weaver

Edition

Republished from the First Published in 1855. ed.

Illustrations

illustrations

Pages

244

Series

Colonial Australian Popular Fiction

Dimensions

127x203x14

ISBN-13

9780987625304

Product ID

27634774

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