The Gentleman's GardenAllen & Unwin, 2005 - 444 من الصفحات Set in colonial Australia, this romantic novel explores love, hardship, and the strength of the human spirit. Dorothea Brande leaves the quiet harmony of her English home to accompany her soldier husband to rough-and-tumble Sydney in 1814. To soften the harshness of their life there, she begins cultivating an English garden with the help of her convict manservant, Daniel. Together, in the creation of this garden, Dorothea and Daniel find a new strength and a special kind of refuge, both in the garden and with each other. Dorothea begins to adapt to her unforgiving new environment, but her husband is steadily destroyed by it. Written in the spirit of the works of Jane Austen and George Eliot, the novel is set against a vivid backdrop of the political events of the time while the public and personal gossip of the day weave in and out of the storyline. |
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الصفحة 256 - The waters compassed me about, even to the soul : the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains ; the earth with her bars was about me for ever : yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
الصفحة 221 - He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children.
الصفحة 221 - And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
الصفحة 219 - These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
الصفحة 291 - I loved her soon. And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten 's grown a cat, And cross like other wives: O ! by my soul, my honest Mat, I fear she has nine lives '." My illustrious friend said, " It is very well, sir; but you should not swear.
الصفحة 291 - To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to...
الصفحة 168 - Gazette in which he reprimanded "an officer of very high rank in the Civil Service of this Colony...
الصفحة 17 - Instance in the extreme wet weather, and the bad state of the Bedding in consequence of being wetted. For I very frequently visited the Prison and never saw any place better fitted up. nor kept in a more cleanly state, and the Prisoners had frequent and indeed almost constant access to the Deck.
الصفحة 37 - Bay are reported on good authority to have coalesced with the mountain tribes; they commit no depredations in the cornfields, but have declared a determination that when the Moon shall be as large as the Sun, they will commence a work of desolation, and kill all the whites before them.