The Fury (Timms novel)

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| caption = Cover of the first edition

| author = E. V. Timms

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| country = Australia

| language = English

| series = Great South Land Saga

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| publisher = Angus and Robertson

| release_date = 1954

| media_type = Print

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The Fury is a 1954 Australian novel by E. V. Timms. It was the seventh in his Great South Land Saga of novels.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47593568 |title=A World Of Unreality |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |volume=97 |issue=30,003 |location=South Australia |date=11 December 1954 |accessdate=11 March 2024 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Premise

A woman, Sally Mae Lome, grows up in the Australian outback. She loses her family in the Black Thursday bushfires of 1851 and winds up in the Eureka Rebellion.

Reception

The book was a best seller.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84603423 |title=Australian books now the best sellers. |newspaper=The Singleton Argus |location=NSW |date=20 December 1954 |accessdate=19 October 2014 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

The Age thought the book was "informative" but felt the incidents that preceded the start of the novel were more interesting than the novel itself.{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|date=1 January 1955|page=17|title=Black Thursday to Bakery Hill}}

The Bulletin said "Timms has his history, and his highflown romance, and his Arlene; and if one finds his Mr. and Mrs. Gubby, said on the dustjacket to be old favorites from earlier novels, quite unbearable in their homely Cockney humor, one must not forget that it is through their voices (however unbearable) that Mr. Timms expresses another strong-point of his novels —their patriotism."{{Citation

| title=A Good! Time with Timms

| journal=The Bulletin

| volume=76| issue=3909 (12 Jan 1955)

| location=Sydney, N.S.W

| publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-688034005

| id=nla.obj-688034005

| access-date=11 March 2024

| via=Trove

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The Daily Advertiser said "there is one grave fault to the book... the

author's handling of the historical background. It is undigested history. The story

is continually being held up in a 'pause, dear reader, while we consider' style of

aside."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article145680195 |title=Book review |newspaper=Daily Advertiser |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=13 December 1954 |accessdate=11 March 2024 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The Argus said "Timms is as gaudily colorful, melodramatic, and pro- fuse as ever. He calls it [his book] "The Fury," and makes a brave bid to live up to it. His style and sense of action, his exuberant delight with characters plucked straight from the corncob, make him a "natural" for Australian-style wild westerns."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23452937 |title=NOVELS... John Steinbeck goes back to Cannery Row |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |location=Victoria, Australia |date=24 December 1954 |accessdate=11 March 2024 |page=31 |via=National Library of Australia}}