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  <title><![CDATA[For the Term of His Natural Life (Dodo Press)]]></title>
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  <default_description>The most famous work by the Australian novelist and poet, For the Term of His Natural Life is a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement, which originally appeared in serial form in a Melbourne paper.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1874</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Marcus Clarke]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first Australian historical fiction dealing with convicts that I’ve read (as far as I can remember anyway) and I was truly looking forward to it.  It’s a classic written in the late 19th century so I guess it was contemporary fiction when it was first written.<br/><br/>Basically, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37237339">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Port Arthur denies the accuracy of the book, but it is hard to feel that the despair of a convict is exaggerated, and that there were not many times when death seemed preferable. A gripping read.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon May 12 00:04:25 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually have yet to finish it, but I'm enjoying it immensely so far. A true Australian classic, and should probably be required reading for any Aussie, or anyone living in Australia.<br/><br/>Its morbid, contrived, Dickens-esque tone conveys the message of what a horrid existence was in store f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22058417">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23346519">
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  <date_added>Fri May 30 18:49:53 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This prison-break book written in the 19th century isn't as well-written or engaging as Papillon, but if you're interested in early Australia and swashbuckling tales of that region when it was so remote and unknown, this is an interesting, fun book.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[masterpiece. can be tedious at some spots, but is a pleasure to read. thoroughly depressing. ballsy for the frankness it permits, considering it was written between 1871-2.<br/><br/>if you're australian, you SHOULD have read this. ]]></body>
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    <review id="21560720">
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    <body><![CDATA[Great story on how the penal system in Australia in 19th century worked and how the relations between people changed since than. page - turner. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the classics that was legitimately good.  I loved it.]]></body>
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    <review id="35055850">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic historical fiction of one of the world's greatest sociological experiments: the prison colonies known as Australia]]></body>
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