{"product_id":"the-forgers-wife-9780987625304","title":"The Forger's Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Lang was Australia's first locally born novelist, publishing early work in Sydney in the 1840s and going on to write several bestsellers. \u003cem\u003eThe Forger's Wife\u003c\/em\u003e (1856) is a lively adventure novel, set in an unruly colonial Sydney where everyone is on the make. The forger's wife is a young woman who follows her rakish husband out to Australia and struggles to survive as her marriage falls apart. She soon meets detective George Flower, a powerful man with a cavalier sense of justice and retribution. Flower literally controls the fortunes of the colony: taking on the local bushrangers, instructing colonial authorities, and helping himself to the spoils along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst serialised in \u003cem\u003eFraser's Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e in 1853, \u003cem\u003eThe Forger's Wife\u003c\/em\u003e was popular in its day and was reprinted many times over. It is Australia's first detective novel - and most likely, the first detective novel in the Anglophone world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes an introduction by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver, and a translation of the appendix by Sophie Zins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It is a powerful, if occasionally painful, book. It sells even now in all the colonies and in England by the thousand...'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Rolf Boldrewood on Australian Literature', \u003cem\u003eThe Advocate\u003c\/em\u003e (Melbourne), 20 May 1893\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grattan Street Press, University of Melbourne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780987625304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d","brand":"John Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44608325550261,"sku":"9780987625304","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_05dcdb98-e88e-4e68-a868-9c7259b0707b.jpg?v=1725374201","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-forgers-wife-9780987625304","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}