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| Author | Joan Lindsay (psd. Serena Livingstone-Stanley) |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Satire, travel novel, metafiction |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
Publication date | 1936 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Pages | 200 |
Through Darkest Pondelayo: An account of the adventures of two English ladies on a cannibal island is a 1936 Australian satirical novel by Joan Lindsay, published under the pseudonym Serena Livingstone-Stanley.[1] The book, which was Lindsay's first-published work, was based on her time spent traveling in Europe, and functions as a parody of English tourists abroad. It is structured in the format of a travel book through a series of first-person letters edited together to form a metafictional narrative.[2]
The narrative is accompanied by photographs of the adventures, which were shot by Lindsay with her friends in a backyard in East Melbourne.[3]
- ^ O'Neill, Terrence (May 2009). "Joan Lindsay: A Time for Everything". The La Trobe Journal.
- ^ O'Neill, Terrence (2012). "Lindsay, Joan à Beckett (1896–1984)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ^ "Joan Lindsay Interviewed". DailyMotion. Retrieved 22 October 2015.