ROSE OF SPADGERS book cover
  Rose of Spadgers
C.J. Dennis
1924

Cover illustration by Hal Gye
   

 

Dustjacket synopsis:
"After causing the Sentimental Bloke and company to appear in three books and a booklet between 1915 and 1919, Dennis appeared to have exhausted his rich vein. Five years later, however, he tapped it again to produce Rose of Spadgers.

"Rose, the girl who Mick had left behind, was inclined to recklessness and "like to come to 'arm". So, like some "tin knight of old", the Bloke appoints himself chief rescuer and later bumbling matchmaker - but of course Doreen is there to save the day.

"Rose of Spadgers has not been republished in full since 1924 and, almost sixty years later, is sure to delight a new audience with its heart-warming wit and homely wisdom."

Contents:

INTRODUCTION
THE FALTERING KNIGHT
TERMARTER SORCE
A HOLY WAR
NOCTURNE
THE CRUSADERS
"'AVE A 'EART!"
ROSE
THE KNIGHT'S RETURN
THE ALSO-RAN
A WOMAN'S WAY
"STONE THE CROWS"
LISTENER'S LUCK
THE DANCE
SPIKE WEGG
NARCISSUS

From the Angus & Robertson hardback edition, 1982.

Copyright © Perry Middlemiss 2002-05