Author | F. J. Thwaites |
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Language | English |
Publisher | F. J. Thwaites |
Publication date | 1938 |
Publication place | Australia |
A Man of Destiny is a 1938 novel by F. J. Thwaites. It was Thwaites' 12th novel. [1]
Peter Ashton kills the man responsible for his mother's death. He is sent to gaol but escapes.
Philip Henry Gosse, known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist and populariser of natural science, an early improver of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology. Gosse created and stocked the first public aquarium at the London Zoo in 1853, and coined the term "aquarium" when he published the first manual, The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea, in 1854. His work was the catalyst for an aquarium craze in early Victorian England.
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The Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. The story is set in the 1870s, around the time Wharton was a young girl. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937 and published in that form in 1938. Wharton's manuscript ends with Lizzy inviting Nan to a house party, to which Guy Thwaite has also been invited. The book was published in 1938 by Penguin Books in New York. After some time, Marion Mainwaring finished the novel, following Wharton's detailed outline, in 1993.
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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1938.
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