A Game of Chance
1920 novel
Title page for A Game of Chance (1922) | |
Author | Arthur Wright |
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Language | English |
Series | Bookstall series |
Genre | Sporting |
Publisher | NSW Bookstall Company |
Publication date | 1920 |
Publication place | Australia |
A Game of Chance is a 1920 sporting novel by Arthur Wright,[1] about sensational events in the world of Australian horse racing.
Reception
According to the reviewer in the Western Mail:
Hero and heroine and villain of the piece are well enough drawn; and there is incident enough in the book to satisfy the veriest glutton for sensation; while towards the close of an exciting story the murder trial... finishes in a most unexpected manner. Mr. Arthur Wright has been compared with the late Nat Gould; and as a rule, his books contain even greater dramatic, or melodramatic, possibilities, or impossibilities, than the numerous works of that most prolific writer.[2]
References
- ^ "REVIEW". Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW : 1856 - 1950). Wollongong, NSW: National Library of Australia. 23 May 1919. p. 1. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ "A SPORTING NOVEL". Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954). Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 20 November 1919. p. 38. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
External links
- Copy of complete novel at Internet Archive
- A Game of Chance at AustLit
- A Game of Chance at National Archives of Australia
- Serialisation of story in The World's News in 1919 - 22 March, 29 March, 5 April, 12 April, 19 April, 26 April, 3 May, 10 May, 17 May, 24 May, 31 May, 7 June, 14 June, 21 June, 28 June, 5 July
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Works by Arthur Wright
- Keane of Kalgoorlie (1907)
- A Rogue's Luck (1909)
- Gambler's Gold (1911)
- Rung In (1912)
- In the Last Stride (1914)
- A Sport from Hollowlog Flat (1915)
- The Hate of a Hun (1916)
- Under a Cloud (1916)
- Over the Odds (1918)
- The Breed Holds Good (1918)
- When Nuggets Glistened (1919)
- The Outlaw's Daughter (1919)
- A Game of Chance (1919)
- A Rough Passage (1920)
- Fettered by Fate (1921)
- The Boss o' Yedden (1922)
- A Colt from the Country (1922)
- The Boy from Bullarah (1925)
- The Squatter's Secret (1927)
- A Good Recovery (1928)
- Gaming for Gold (1929)
- A Crooked Game (1930)
- Keane of Kalgoorlie (1911)
- Gambler's Gold (1911)
- Black Talbot (1912)
- The Loyal Rebel (1915)
- In the Last Stride (1916)
- A Rough Passage (1922)
- Keane of Kalgoorlie (1908)
- A Sport from Hollowlog Flat (1927)
- Black Talbot (1910)