One side of the street glittered like a brilliant eruption with light from a row of shops, the other, lined with houses, was almost deserted, for the people, drawn like moths by the glare, crowded and jostled under the lights.
Jonah was the first great novel of Sydney. Set in the slums of Redfern, Alexandria and Waterloo in the early 1900s, it is the story of a man, hunchbacked and outcast, whose effective life is lived on the streets as leader of a larrikin gang. It is also the story of the place Sydney in all its crumbling glory and its jostling cast of characters. -
'Like old terrace houses, Dorothy Green wrote in a classic essay. published here as an introduction, the novels of Louis Stone "have an attraction all their own."
Historical Australian fiction
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