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A Fringe Of Leaves by Patrick White
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Set in Australia in the 1840s, A Fringe of Leaves combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner ...Show more
A Fringe of Leaves by Patrick White
Category: Fiction
"From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Set in Australia in the 1840s, A Fringe of Leavescombines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner ...Show more
A Fringe of Leaves by Patrick White
Category: Fiction
Returning to England in 1840, the "Bristol Maid" is shipwrecked on the Queensland Coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of Aborigines. In the course of her escape, she is torn by loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer, to her own and to her adoptive class.
Collected Short Stories of Patrick White by Patrick White
Category: Short Stories
Combines The Cockatoos, The Burnt Ones and Three Uneasy Pieces into one volume.
Collected Stories Burnt Ones & Three Uneasy Pieces by White Patrick
Category: General Fiction
Eye of the Storm, The by Patrick White; Deidre Rubenstein (Read by)
Category: Audio
Elizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her '80s, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself to those around her. From this simple scenario Patrick White unfurls a monumental explor ...Show more
Flaws in the Glass by Patrick White
Category: Fiction
The appearance of this self-portrait by Patrick White is a literary event for which his readers and admirers have long hoped. He explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognizes very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man who intervi ...Show more
Flaws in the Glass by Patrick White
Category: Biography
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 he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but 'unable to produce him', he prefers t ...Show more
Happy Valley by Patrick White
Category: Audio Books
Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valley paints a portrait of a community in a desolate landscape. It is a jagged and restless study of small-town and country life. Happy Valley is a place of dream ...Show more
Happy Valley: Text Classics by Patrick White
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Patrick White's magnificent debut novel - first published 1939, long out of print and now a Text Classic.Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valleypaints a portrait of a community in a desolate landsc ...Show more
Happy Valley - Text Classics by Patrick White
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Originally published in 1939, Happy Valley is set in a small country town in the Snowy Mountains. Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valley paints a portrait of a community in a desolate landscape. I ...Show more