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David Malouf
A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien…
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In the mid-1840s, a 13-year-old British cabin boy is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later, he moves back into the…
Here are nine haunting stories from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, in which history and geography, as well as the past and the present, combine and often collide, illuminating…
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A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday. Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions. Parental and grandparental romances, the…
Lyrical, immediate and heartbreaking, Malouf’s fable engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a perfect miniature - themes of war and heroics, hubris and humanity, chance and fate…
Patrycia Gellert
Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: Scholars of Antipodean culture emphasise the power…
Bruce Pattinson
This series has been created to assist students of English in their understandin of a variet of texts.
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This series has been created to assist HSC students of English in their understanding of set texts. Top Notes are easy to read, providing analysis of issues and discussion of…
Ruth Barratt-Peacock
This book uses the model theory as a new way to approach Romanticism in contemporary Australian literature. It explores a model of Romantic irony in the poetry of two contemporary…
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Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. Seen through the eyes of the narrator, he is a figure of legendary proportions. His disorderly presence can disturb the…
In The Happy Life David Malouf addresses one of the most fundamental questions of all: what makes for a happy life? In luminous prose, with ideas to savour and reflect…
Every city, town and village has it memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people’s battles…
The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk.
First-person story of the Roman poet Ovid’s exile in the distant, frosty wastes. At the centre of the tale is Ovid’s encounter with a wild boy, brought up among the…
A work of lingering beauty and emotional resonance. As Jim Saddler introduces his young employer to the ways of swamp wildlife, the lines of class and education dissolve in a…
For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers.
Patrick White
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MALOUF Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu, Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. Now…
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Christina Stead
Robert Grant is a womanizing New York businessman, whose shady dealings unravel when he meets his match in Barbara Kent.
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Sophie Schott
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institute for English and American Studies), course: Narrative…
Ovid
Is your life filled with passionate escapades and fashionable parties? And do you look and feel fantastic all the time? This book contains all men need to know about the…
A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focused on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals. It is essentially the story of a boy caught…
Published to mark William Robinson’s 75th birthday and presents all his key works.
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