Struggle and Storm by Meg Tasker

Struggle and Storm

The Life and Death of Francis Adams

by Meg Tasker

Melbourne University Press, 2001 [First Edition], ISBN 0522849466, illustrated end-papers, black and white photographic plates, hardcover, dust-jacket

Near Fine Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions or markings, dust-jacket shows minor edge and shelf wear (see photographs)

"Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862 - 1893) - poet, novelist, social analyst and journalist - made a significant place for himself in Australian literacy and cultural history.  Born in England, he was a self-consciously modern writer of the fin de siecle' the theme of suicide figured frequently in his writings, and in death he embodied the romantic myth of the consumptive artist."