Moondyne (Annotated)

John Boyle O'Reilly's Moondyne is a vivid romance of transportation, prison life, and moral regeneration set chiefly in the penal world of Western Australia. Drawing on the legend of the bushranger Moondyne Joe, the novel blends adventure narrative, social protest, and Victorian melodrama, while its descriptive passages give the Australian landscape a symbolic force. Beneath its plot of crime, esc...