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The Squatter's Dream

Rolf Boldrewood (1826–1915)

Novel · first published 1890 · London: Macmillan (first serialised 1875 as "Ups and Downs"; this text from the 1891 edition)

A young squatter gambles everything on a run in the back country, through drought, debt and the wool market.

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Rolf Boldrewood (author) died in 1915. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1965. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.

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First published in 1890. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.

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Contents

  1. THE SQUATTER’S DREAM
  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. CHAPTER XVII.
  19. CHAPTER XVIII.
  20. CHAPTER XIX.
  21. CHAPTER XX.
  22. CHAPTER XXI.
  23. CHAPTER XXII.
  24. CHAPTER XXIII.
  25. CHAPTER XXIV.
  26. CHAPTER XXV.
  27. CHAPTER XXVI.

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