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The Stranger. (Camus novel) The Stranger (French: L'Étranger [letʁɑ̃ʒe], lit. 'The Foreigner'), also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus's novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after ...
ISBN. 0207123756. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a 1972 Booker Prize -nominated Australian novel by Thomas Keneally, [1] and a 1978 Australian film of the same name directed by Fred Schepisi. [2] The novel is based on the life of bushranger Jimmy Governor, the subject of an earlier book by Frank Clune. [3]
The Secret River is a 2005 historical novel by Kate Grenville about an early 19th-century Englishman transported to Australia for theft. The story explores what might have happened when Europeans colonised land already inhabited by Aboriginal people. [1] The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2006, and has been compared to Thomas ...
The Wretched of the Earth (French: Les Damnés de la Terre) is a 1961 book by the philosopher Frantz Fanon, in which the author provides a psychoanalysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization upon the individual and the nation, and discusses the broader social, cultural, and political implications of establishing a social movement for the decolonisation of a person and of a people.
The Luminaries is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. [2] Set in New Zealand 's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields. Instead, he stumbles into a tense meeting between twelve local men, and is drawn into a complex mystery ...
R. M. Ballantyne. Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction, who wrote more than a hundred books. He was also an accomplished artist: he exhibited some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy. [1]
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Settlers was first published as a letter-sized pamphlet in 1983 under the title The Mythology of the White Proletariat: A Short Course in Understanding Babylon. [5] Settlers was distributed within covert networks organized by activists associated with the BLA. [6] A fourth edition was published jointly by PM Press and Kersplebedeb in 2014 under ...