Henry Avery Henry Avery i(A78763 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Papa Topaz Henry Avery , 1897 single work short story adventure
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 32 no. 388 1897; (p. 652) Railroad story. A happy manly engineer on a Rockies line is heart-broken when his wife runs off with another man and takes his precious daughter with him. The girl mysteriously returns and he raises her. Then in 1887 his train is involved in an accident and his wife dies unconscious in his arms ... Slight warm sense of love of fellow railwaymen for him and his daughter; powerful description of the accident; moral failure of the wife stressed by her death ... (PB)
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