ix 208 pages. The pages are tanned and there is the shadow of earlier pricing on the front end paper, else clean, unmarked and solid. Original title: 'Les Voleurs D'Or', published in 1857. ""Never before translated into English, this outraged expose of Australian depravity at the time of the Victorian gold rush was written by the Countess de Chabrillan, wife of the French Consul to Melbourne. Unfortunately, she was also the most notorious courtesan in France, under the name of Mogador, and copies of her autobiography reached Melbourne before she dud. Shunned by the best society, she took revenge with The Gold Robbers. No great shakes as literature, The Gold Robbers is nevertheless great fun to read, and historically important as the first novel about the Australian gold rush. With murders, rapes and a public execution, Victoria is hardly the place for a nice girl. But Celeste de Chabrillan was not a nice girl at all, though she died back in France many years later as a famous and grand old lady." (Back cover)