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Selected Stories: Text Classics by Katherine Mansfield
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Here in one volume are twenty-three of the finest stories by Katherine Mansfield. Considered one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century, Mansfield was from a young age heavily influenced by Anton Chekhov, a master of the form. This new selection, with an introduction by the novelist ...Show more
Selected Stories: Text Classics by Amy Witting
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Amy Witting was a master of the short story, the genre in which she felt 'most at home'. Her subjects-childhood and school, marriage and loneliness, the cruelty of men and women-are rendered in a crisp, understated style, at once compassionate and unsentimental. This new selection of twenty pieces from ...Show more
Shooting Star: Text Classics by Peter Temple; Adrian McKinty (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Anne Carson- fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, subject to strict instructions. This is not the first kidnapping in the Carson family and hard lessons have been learned. But are the two events connected? And is greed the motivation? Rev ...Show more
Songs of a Sentimental Bloke - Text Classics by Dennis C. J.
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Introduced by Jack Thompson The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, a comic verse novel, was first published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions within a year. By the mid-1970s nearly three hundred thousand copies had been sold internationally. One of the most famous ...Show more
Stiff: Text Classics by Shane Maloney
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
The fiddle at the Pacific Pastoral meat-packing works was a nice little earner for all concerned until Herb Gardiner reported finding a body in number 3 chiller. An accident, of course, but just the excuse a devious political operator might grab to stir up trouble with the unions. Enter Murray Whelan, m ...Show more
Strine: Text Classics by AFFERBECK LAUDER
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
How's your ebb tide? Do you sign on the dotted lion? Is your tea nature Orpheus Rocker? Who is Charlie Charm Puck in 'Waltzing Matilda'? There was never any book about Australian speech like Strine or about posh British speech like Fraffly Well Spoken. Here, collected in one volume, are Afferbeck Lauder ...Show more
Such is Life by Joseph Furphy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
A classic of the Australian outback, Such Is Life is the farcical, tragic reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue. As Tom drives his team across the plains of the Riverina and northern Victoria, he gets entangled in the fate of others like Rory O'Halloran, the two Alfs (Nosey and Warrigal) a ...Show more
Swords and Crowns and Rings: Text Classics by Ruth Park
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Jackie Hanna, born with dwarfism, and Cushie Moy, the girl next door, share an innocent love--a love that will be censured, but will persevere. This is the story of the triumph of a special kind of courage.Ruth Park's Miles Franklin-winning novel brilliantly evokes Australia in the Great Depression.
Take Me to Paris, Johnny (Text Classic) by John Foster
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
John Foster's moving yet unsentimental account of the life of his partner, Juan Cespedes. In 1981 the young Cuban dancer Juan is a struggling dancer in NYC. There he meets John, an Australian historian. The two live in New York, where Juan tries to make it on Broadway. They cross the globe together, bat ...Show more
Terra Australis: Text Classics by Matthew Flinders
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and com ...Show more
The Australian Ugliness by Robin Boyd & Christos Tsiolkas
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In it Boyd railed against Australia's promotion of ornament, decorative approach to design and slavish imitatio ...Show more
The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics by Christina Stead
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"The express flew towards Paris over the flooded March swamps. In a parlour-car, the melancholy dark young woman looked out persistently at the sand-dunes, cement-mills, pines, the war-cemetery with stone banners like folded umbrellas, the fields under water, the bristling ponds with deserted boats and ...Show more