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The Dickens boy

The Dickens boy

Keneally, Thomas, author.
Large Print 2022

"In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of his under-achieving sons tarnishing his reputation at home, Charles Dickens sent two of them to Australia. The tenth child of Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn, had consistently proved unable 'to apply himself ' to school or life. So aged sixteen, he is sent, as his brother Alfred was before him, to Australia. Plorn arrives in Melbourne in late 1868 carrying a terrible se...

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Australia Fiction
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Family Fiction
Families Fiction
Immigrants Australia History 19th century Fiction
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ISBN:
9781432895495
1432895494
Edition:
Large print edition
Description:
629 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
large print
Notes:
"Originally published in Australia in 2020 by Vintage, an imprint of Penguin Random House"--Title page verso
"Thorndike Press large print basic"--Title page verso
Originally published in standard print format: New York : Atria Books, 2022
Includes bibliographical references
Control Number:
3174614
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