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Publication date 1937 Followed by Chosen People | 3.8/5 Goodreads Pages 330 Originally published 1937 Page count 330 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Young Desire It (1937) is a novel by Australian author Seaforth Mackenzie. It won the ALS Gold Medal for Best Novel in 1937.
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The novel details a year in the life of its teenage protagonist Charles Fox. He has left his idyllic life on an isolated West Australian farm for boarding school. There he suffers the bullying of his fellow students, uncomfortable advances from his schoolmaster and a difficult scholastic workload.
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