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The Australian Literature Resource
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Born: 15 Aug 1873 Emerald Hill, Victoria
Died: 20 Nov 1950 Elsternwick, Victoria
Gender: Male
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Writer and journalist Erle Cox was best-known for his 1925 novel, Out of the Silence, which has been described as 'a classic work of science fiction. Set in rural Australia, it tells the story of a young vigneron who discovers, buried beneath his land, a huge sphere containing the culture and technology of a past civilization. Cox began to write the book about 1916 but had shaped the idea for it earlier - "pacing up and down the St Kilda sands". At first he was unable to find a publisher but in ....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
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6 Nov 2009