tailieunhanh - For the Term of His Natural Life

My Dear Sir Charles, I take leave to dedicate this work to you, not merely because your nineteen years of political and literary life in Australia render it very fitting that any work written by a resident in the colonies, and having to do with the history of past colonial days, should bear your name upon its dedicatory page; but because the publication of my book is due to your advice and encouragement. The convict of fiction has been hitherto shown only at the beginning or at the end of his career. Either his exile has been the mysterious. | For the Term of His Natural Life By Marcus Clarke DEDICATION TO SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY My Dear Sir Charles I take leave to dedicate this work to you not merely because your nineteen years of political and literary life in Australia render it very fitting that any work written by a resident in the colonies and having to do with the history of past colonial days should bear your name upon its dedicatory page but because the publication of my book is due to your advice and encouragement. The convict of fiction has been hitherto shown only at the beginning or at the end of his career. Either his exile has been the mysterious end to his misdeeds or he has appeared upon the scene to claim interest by reason of an equally unintelligible love of crime acquired during his experience in a penal settlement. Charles Reade has drawn the interior of a house of correction in England and Victor Hugo has shown how a French convict fares after the fulfilment of his sentence. But no writer so far as I am aware has attempted to depict the dismal condition of a felon during his term of transportation. I have endeavoured in His Natural Life to set forth the working and the results of an English system of transportation carefully considered and carried out under official supervision and to illustrate in the manner best calculated as I think to attract general attention the inexpediency of again allowing offenders against the law to be herded to- 2 For the Term of His Natural Life gether in places remote from the wholesome influence of public opinion and to be submitted to a discipline which must necessarily depend for its just administration upon the personal character and temper of their gaolers. Your critical faculty will doubtless find in the construction and artistic working of this book many faults. I do not think however that you will discover any exaggerations. Some of the events narrated are doubtless tragic and terrible but I hold it needful to my purpose to record them for .

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