Tales of the Early Days (1894) is a collection of historical tales primarily concerned with the social abuses of the convict system of early Australia, such as 'Secret Society of the Ring, set in the penal colony of Norfolk Island. Warungs stories are filled with imaginative truth and 'symbolic veracity, though he draws on documentary fact and social realism.
Author Biography
Price Warung is the pseudonym of William Astley (1855-1911), a journalist and author and newspaper editor.
