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Stone was born in Leicester, England, baptized as William Lewis, son of William Stone, a basketmaker, and his wife Emma, née Tewkes. [1] In 1884 the family emigrated to Brisbane, and then a year later, to Redfern in Sydney.
A reviewer in The Sydney Morning Herald understood the worth of the novel from its first publication: "In Jonah, Mr. Louis Stone has given us an excellent novel.He has taken a phase of Australian life which has been rather neglected by local writers, and laid his setting in the slums of Sydney of a few years ago. Mr. Stone knows his subject, and writes with humour and observation, and a great ...
This is a list of novelists living in Australia or publishing significantly while living there. ... Louis Stone (1871–1935) Randolph Stow (1935–2010)
Jonah is a 1982 Australian mini series based on the novel of the same name by Louis Stone. It is about Jonah, leader of a street gang who goes into business. [1] [2] The novel was published in 1911. [3]
A reviewer in The Courier-Mail likened the book to the work of an earlier novelist: "Twenty years ago Louis Stone, an Englishman, then living in New South Wales, showed in his novel, Jonah, that the streets of Sydney, throbbing with life, intensity, and emotionalism, provided a wonderful background for an Australian novel. Until the other day ...
It is based on the 1911 novel Jonah by Australian writer Louis Stone. Set in the inner suburbs of Sydney in the thirty years prior to World War I, the musical is an ironic story of the capitalist rise of a hunchback shoe repairer from a leader of a local Push to an industrial magnate.
Nov. 3—Parting Stone, the Santa Fe company that solidifies cremated remains into rounded stones, is growing beyond North America. In just three years, founder and CEO Justin Crowe's business has ...
Born in 1933 and raised in Columbus, Ohio, [1] Stone graduated in political science from Cornell University and in 1957 started work as a copy boy for The New York Times.In 1962, he emigrated to Australia and commenced as a journalist for News Limited, working as a foreign correspondent in Vietnam in the late 1960s, and also covered the Australian Moree "Freedom Rides" for the Daily Mirror and ...