Over the Odds (novel)

Over the Odds

Author	Arthur Wright
Country	Australia
Language	English
Series	Bookstall series
Genre	sporting
Publisher	NSW Bookstall Company
Publication date	1918
Pages	155

Over the Odds is a 1918 novel by Arthur Wright.

Plot

Ossy Odson is left a fortune provided he gets married by a certain date.

Reception

The Sunday Times said that:

Here is a remarkable thing. In other parts of the world writers of no special merit are making large incomes by turning out conventional sporting novels. In Australia Mr. Arthur Wright, the best sporting novelist of them all, is apparently content with a purely local reputation. His latest book is well up to his standard. The people are credible, the emotions are convincing and not strained, and the sporting color is (as far as a non-sporting reviewer can judge) all that it should be. Also, the little story is- a wholesome little story in its form, and it is one of those readable little stories with which one can pleasantly fuss a lazy afternoon.^[1]

The Sydney Morning Herald stated that:

Arthur Wright has reduced the construction of sporting tales to an exact science. "Over the Odds" has all the qualities which have made its predecessors popular... There are abductions, false marriages, adventures of every kind, all the ingredients, in fact, of a sensational tale, and the background is the racecourse on which all of Mr. Wright's characters move with such familiar ease.^[2]

References

1. "Good Sporting Stuff.". The Sunday Times (Sydney: National Library of Australia). 28 April 1918. p. 13. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
2. "NEW NOVELS.". The Sydney Morning Herald (National Library of Australia). 4 May 1918. p. 8. Retrieved 29 September 2014.

External links

• Over the Odds at AustLit
• Over the Odds at National Archives of Australia
• Serialised in the Kilmore Free Press in 1936 – 22 Oct, 29 Oct, 5 Nov, 12 Nov, 19 Nov, 26 Nov, 3 Dec, 10 Dec, 17 Dec – final installment