Title Power without glory / Frank Hardy

Edition 50th anniversary edition Published Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House, 2000

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'BOOL	827.03 H2688 A6/P 2000		ON DISPLAY

Description 660 pages ; 20 cm Series New Items Summary This is the novel that provoked intense uproar and debate across the nation. A tale of corruption stretching from the street corner SP bookmaking to the most influential men in the land Notes "50th Anniversary edition" -- Cover First published 1950 Frank Hardy's famous novel Power Without Glory was printed and published secretly in Melbourne in 1950. Its appearance and the subsequent criminal libel case became perhaps Australia's greatest literary cause celebre Based on the life of John Wren Subject Wren, John, 1871-1953 -- Fiction. Australian fiction. Political corruption -- Australia -- Fiction. Political corruption -- Fiction. Political fiction, Australian. Gamblers -- Australia -- Fiction. SUBJECT Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Political fiction. ISBN 0091842069 :

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