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Dog Boy: Text Classics by Eva Hornung; Yann Martel (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2010Introduced by Yann MartelAbandoned in a big city at the onset of winter, a hungry four-year-old boy follows a stray dog to her lair. There in the rich smelly darkness, in the rub of hair, claws and teeth, he joins four puppies suckling at their mother's ...Show more
Down in the City (Text Classics) by Elizabeth Harrower
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Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Esther Prescott has seen little of life outside her wealthy family's Rose Bay mansion-until flashy Stan Peterson comes roaring up the drive in his huge American car and barges into her life. Within a fortnight they are living in his Kings Cross flat. Moody and erratic, proud of his well-bred wife yet bi ...Show more
Drylands: Text Classics by Thea Astley
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in which no one reads--'full of people, she envisaged, glaring at a screen that glared glassily back'. Drylands is the story of the townsfolk's ...Show more
Fence Around the Cuckoo: Text Classics by Ruth Park
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
This first volume of Ruth Park's autobiography is an account of her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand, her convent education which encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression.She then entered the rough-and-tumble world of journalism and began a rel ...Show more
Fishing in the Styx: Text Classics by Ruth Park
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$12.95 (74% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia to continue her work as a journalist, newly married to D'Arcy Niland. Determined to earn their living as writers, they submitted story outlines to radio stations, idea for articles to newspapers and accepted whatever freelance jobs came their way. The Har ...Show more
For the Term of His Natural Life: Text Classics by Marcus Clarke
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wrongfully convicted, a young aristocrat is sent to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. There he is forced to endure tremendous suffering, from the cruelty of those in power to the harsh untamed country. Dawes remains determined to clear his name, no matter the trials that come his way.
Honour & Other People's Children: Text Classics by Helen Garner
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Two novellas, delving into our connections with those we love, and the pain of breaking those connections. Introduced by Michael Sala.In Honour, Kathleen and Frank are amicably separated, and share the parenting of their young daughter, Flo. But when Frank finds a new partner and wants a divorce, Kathle ...Show more
Kangaroo - Text Classics by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
After the Great War, Richard Lovat Somers, a writer, and Harriet, his wife, leave disillusioned Europe for Australia. There Somers falls into the company of charismatic fascist 'Kangaroo'. The young writer struggles with his past and his personal ideology as he finds himself in a deadly tug-of-war betwe ...Show more
Lilian's Story: Text Classic by Kate Grenville
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Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
I was still not permitted to decline those tennis parties. 'You must not close off your options,' Father said, and tweaked at one of the unflattering frills on my dress. In her much-loved debut novel, Kate Grenville took inspiration from the legendary Sydney eccentric Bea Miles to fashion the fictional ...Show more
Moral Hazard: Text Classics by Kate Jennings
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
I disapproved of bankers, on principle. Not that I knew any. Until this job, I had worked and made friends with people who shared my views. Mostly moral, mostly kind. An unlikely candidate, then, for the job of executive speechwriter, to be putting words in the mouths of plutocrats deeply suspicious of ...Show more
My Brilliant Career: Text Classics by Miles Franklin
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Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither is it a novel, but simply a yarn - a real yarn. Oh!" Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tal ...Show more
Myself When Young: Text Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
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Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
It has never been my way to say much about my private life. Rightly or wrongly, I believed this only concerned myself. And I trusted to my husband to supply, on my death, any further information that might be asked for. Now that he is gone, however, there is no one to take his place, and so I propose to ...Show more