The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke

Author(s): C. J. Dennis

Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Poetry

Narrators: Algy Pug

Number of Chapters: 16

Length: 2 hours and 08 minutes

Language: English

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The book sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year, and is probably one of the highest selling verse novels ever published in Australia.

The novel tells the story of Bill, a larrikin of the Little Lonsdale Street Push, who is introduced to a young woman by the name of Doreen. The book chronicles their courtship and marriage, detailing Bill's transformation from a violence-prone gang member to a contented husband and father. C.J. Dennis went on to publish three sequels to this novel: The Moods of Ginger Mick (1916), Doreen (1917) and Rose of Spadgers (1924(Introduction from Wikipedia)