The Hills of Hate
{{Short description|1925 novel by Australian author E. V. Timms}}
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| pages = 211 pp.
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The Hills of Hate is a 1925 novel by the Australian author E. V. Timms.{{cite web|title= The Hills of Hate by E. V. Timms (Cornstalk, 1925)|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2483232|access-date=11 June 2024}} It was the author's debut novel.{{cite news|title=Noted author E.V. Timms dies|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=16 June 1960|page=7}}
The first edition of the novel included illustrations by Percy Lindsay.{{cite web|title= Austlit — The Hills of Hate by E. V. Timms |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C642771|access-date= 11 June 2024}}
Synopsis
Two families of station-holders in Queensland, the Blakes and the Ridgeways, become estranged when sons of both families fall in love with the same woman.
Publishing history
After its initial publication in Australia by Cornstalk Publishing in 1925, it was serialised in The World's News between October 1927 and January 1928, and then reprinted in 1936 by Australian Consolidated Press{{cite web|title= The Hills of Hate by E. V. Timms (Australian Consolidated Press, 1936)|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1170941|access-date=11 June 2024}} in a revised version.
Critical reception
A reviewer in The Sun (Sydney) noted that the novel showed promise: "Further, may he be commended for a fertile imagination, a sense of dramatic effect, and a virile, human touch...Lack of cunning is its chief fault. Sometimes one
gains the impression of a wandering spotlight and the fruity tones of melodrama, but the story is there. It holds
a promise of better work to follow."{{cite web|title="Australia's Wild West" |newspaper= Sun|date= 30 August 1925|publisher= The Sun, 30 August 1925, p18|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223726274|access-date= 11 June 2024}}
In The Age a critic thought more of the book: "It is a tale of the sensational type, but it is well conceived and admirably written...Events fairly race through the pages, and the interest never slackens."{{cite web|title="Recent Fiction" |newspaper= Age|date= 12 September 1925|publisher= The Age, 12 September 1925, p4|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155797681|access-date= 11 June 2024}}
Film adaptation
The novel was adapted as a film titled Hills of Hate in 1926, directed by Raymond Longford with a screenplay by E. V. Timms.{{cite web|title= Hills of Hate (1926) |publisher= IDMB|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315962/|access-date= 11 June 2024}}
See also
References
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Category:1925 Australian novels