Oscar and Lucinda

Author(s)

• Carey, Peter

Bibliographic Information

Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

Faber and Faber, 1999

Other Title

Oscar & Lucinda

Note

Glossary: p. 520

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Set on board an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour de force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass.

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Details

• NCID: BA56100025
• ISBN:
  • 057120063X
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 520 p.
• Size: 18 cm
• Classification:
  • DC19 : 823
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Fiction in English. Australian writers, 1945- - Texts
  • LCSH : Glass manufacture -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Gamblers -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Young women -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Clergy -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Australia -- Fiction