A Game of Chance
{{Short description|1920 novel}}
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| author = Arthur Wright
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| country = Australia
| language = English
| series = Bookstall series
| genre = Sporting
| publisher = NSW Bookstall Company
| release_date = 1920
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A Game of Chance is a 1920 sporting novel by Arthur Wright,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132413596 |title=REVIEW. |newspaper=Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW : 1856 - 1950) |location=Wollongong, NSW |date=23 May 1919 |accessdate=30 September 2014 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} about sensational events in the world of Australian horse racing.
Reception
According to the reviewer in the Western Mail:
Hero and heroine and villain of the piece are well enough drawn; and there is incident enough in the book to satisfy the veriest glutton for sensation; while towards the close of an exciting story the murder trial... finishes in a most unexpected manner. Mr. Arthur Wright has been compared with the late Nat Gould; and as a rule, his books contain even greater dramatic, or melodramatic, possibilities, or impossibilities, than the numerous works of that most prolific writer.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37459830 |title=A SPORTING NOVEL. |newspaper=Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954) |location=Perth, WA |date=20 November 1919 |accessdate=1 October 2014 |page=38 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
References
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External links
- [https://archive.org/stream/gameofchance00wrigiala#page/n7/mode/2up Copy of complete novel] at Internet Archive
- [http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C471748 A Game of Chance] at AustLit
- [http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=3448516&isAv=N A Game of Chance] at National Archives of Australia
- Serialisation of story in The World's News in 1919 - [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130596336 22 March], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130596425 29 March], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130596540 5 April], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130596640 12 April], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130596707 19 April], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130596844 26 April], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130596941 3 May], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130597044 10 May], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130597145 17 May], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130597240 24 May], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130597280 31 May], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130597458 7 June], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130597520 14 June], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130597660 21 June], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130597777 28 June], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130597873 5 July]
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Category:1920 Australian novels