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Patrick White
Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The people who court him are, above all, the victims of his art, and he dissects their weaknesses with…
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At the turn of the century, Stan Parker takes a wife and makes a home as a small farmer in the wilderness of Australia. Amy bears his children and time…
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Set in 19th-century Australia, this is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a young orphan. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura…
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To hesitate on the edge of life or to plunge in and risk change -this is the dilemma explored in THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. Mrs Standish, ageing but still…
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Patrick White’s magnificent debut novel - available for the first time since 1939. Based on Patrick White’s own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby…
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Christos Tsiolkas
In this passionate and electrifying short book, Christos Tsiolkas writes about his year spent reading Patrick White, of his ‘discovery and rediscovery of White as a writer.‘ The result is…
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An essential late novel from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Elizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes…
Returning home to England from Van Diemen’s land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of aborigines, along with…
The Season at Sarsaparilla is 'a charade of suburbia'; the neighbours that populate the play are held by their environment, waiting with determination, but little expectation, for the inevitable cycle…
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David Marr
A biography of Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, author of a dozen novels and many other books, a spokesman for (and against) an Australia he both…
Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy’s mother has died in the Blitz. In…
Arthur and Waldo Brown were born twins and destined never to to grow away from each other. They spent their childhood together. Their youth together. Middle-age together. Retirement together. They…
Suzanne Stephenson
Being a talking pig is not easy, particularly if you belong to a lawyer. Patrick the pig not only finds himself involved with the Parish Council but also finds himself…
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In this collection of short novels and stories, Patrick White explores the gulf - by turns funny and unbearably sad - between life’s expectations and its realities. With immense understanding…
Patrick Sean Kelley
The woods on the O'Connors' land is dark, eerie and rumoured to be haunted, which makes them the perfect place for an epic camping trip at the close of the…
John Colmer (Author deceased. Rosemary Colmer is beneficiary.)
First published in 1984, John Colmer’s study of novelist, Patrick White, was the first to survey all his published works. It differs from earlier studies in using autobiographical material, revealing…
Toni Brisland
Patrick White wanted to be a writer when no one thought he should! This remarkable man, remembered for his poetic descriptions of the Australian landscape and people in his many…
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Michael Giffin
The novels of Australia’s Nobel Laureate Patrick White (1912-1990) are a persistent commentary on Nietzsche’s proclamation of God’s death. As White knew the proclamation was not about God’s existence, but…
With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. On the journey home, Theodora finds there is little to choose between the reality of…
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 1,1, Universitat Leipzig (Institut fur Politikwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Es gibt philosophische Werke, die so komplex…
Happy Valley is a place of dreams and secrets, of snow and ice and wind. In this remote little town, perched in its landscape of desolate beauty, everybody has a…
First published in 1981, this is the autobiography of Patrick White, the Australian novelist, who was born and educated in England, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in…
Tagtaglich begegnet man in allen Medien rassistischen UEbergriffen, Regimen oder Ideologien. Dem Rassismus gegenuber steht der Antirassismus, der den Rassismus kritisiert und lobenswert erscheint. Im vorliegenden Buch wird die Frage…
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In this remarkable self-portrait Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self…
History of Clare and the Dalcassian Clans of Tipperary Limerick, and Galway is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on…
Gangsters, Godfathers, hit men and dons. A trillion dollar mafia company business, where a man’s code of honor and his word are everything. Come step inside and learn the secret…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
""History of Clara and the Dalmatian Clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galley"" is a historical book written by Patrick White in 1893. The book provides a detailed account of the…
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naive young woman. Voss sets out to…
Explore the curiosities of our galaxy with this comprehensive, digestible guide to astronomy!
Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. In wartime Australia, these two children form an extraordinary…
This clear and concise guide provides the introduction to descriptive statistical analysis that all students need to draw insightful conclusions from their data. Assuming no prior expertise, it presents jargon-free…
Almost everyone knows who Bill White is, though they may not know his name. Bill is the red-coated, dog-sledding Mountie who always gets his man. At least that’s how it…
Rejected by the 1962 Adeladie Festival Board of Governors as ‘unappetising fare’ - The Ham Funeral is now considered a modern classic.Set in a squalid British boarding house, the…
The eponymous hero, Johann Voss, is based on Ludwig Leichhardt, the nineteenth-century German explorer and naturalist who had already conducted several major expeditions into the Australian outback before making an…
An essential story collection from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series
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