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The Gold-Stealers

Edward Dyson (1865–1931)

Novel · first published 1901 · London: Longmans, Green

A gang of boys and a gold-robbery mystery in the Victorian mining township of Waddy, by a writer who grew up on the diggings.

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About 71,423 words · roughly 5.0 hours of reading (medium) · 16 sections online · In: Convict and goldfields era

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Edward Dyson (author) died in 1931. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1981. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.

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First published in 1901. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.

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Contents

  1. THE GOLD STEALERS
  2. CHAPTER I.
  3. CHAPTER II.
  4. CHAPTER III.
  5. CHAPTER IV
  6. CHAPTER V.
  7. CHAPTER VI.
  8. CHAPTER VII.
  9. CHAPTER VIII.
  10. CHAPTER IX.
  11. CHAPTER X.
  12. CHAPTER XI.
  13. CHAPTER XII.
  14. CHAPTER XIII.
  15. CHAPTER XIV.
  16. CHAPTER XV.
  17. CHAPTER XVI.
  18. I—,
  19. CHAPTER XVII.
  20. CHAPTER XVIII.
  21. CHAPTER XIX.
  22. CHAPTER XX.
  23. CHAPTER XXI.
  24. CHAPTER XXII.
  25. CHAPTER XXIII.
  26. C. S.'
  27. CHAPTER XXIV
  28. 'CHRISTINA SHINE.'
  29. CHAPTER XXV.
  30. THE END

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