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Kangaroo

D. H. Lawrence (Author), Martin Secker Ltd (Publisher), Dunedin Press (Printer)
Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife, Harriet, in the early 1920s. The novel includes a chapter ("Nightmare") describing the Somers' experiences in wartime Cornwall, vivid descriptions of the Australian landscape, and Richard Somers' sceptical reflections on fringe politics in Sydney. "Kangaroo" is the nickname of one of Lawrence's characters, Benjamin Cooley, a prominent ex-soldier and lawyer, who is also the leader of a secretive, fascist paramilitary organisation, the "Diggers Club". Cooley fascinates Somers, but he maintains his distance from the movement itself
Print Book, English, 1923
Martin Secker, London, 1923
Fiction
v, 402 pages + 6 pages of publisher's advertisements ; 20 cm
5175814
Torestin
Neighbours
Larboard watch ahoy!
Jack and Jaz
Coo-ee
Kangaroo
The battle of tongues
Volcanic evidence
Harriet and Lovat at sea in marriage
Diggers
Willie Struthers and Kangaroo
The nightmare
"Revenge!" Timotheus cries
Bits
Jack slaps back
A row in town
Kangaroo is killed
Adieu Australia