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Andrews examines the development of Warung's political thought. As editor of, and contributor of essays and fiction to, various magazines, Warung was a major voice of the 1890s labour movement. But despite the power of the political message, Warung's stories were weakened, technically, by his "pathological need to weave editorial comment into the texture of his narrative".