Australian Classics: 50 great writers and their celebrated works

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Allen & Unwin, 2007 M11 1 - 352 páginas
What are the classic works of Australian literature? And what can they tell us about ourselves and the land we live in? Providing a selected overview of Australia's greatest literature, Australian Classics is an accessible companion to our literature and a story of writing in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present.

Australian Classics celebrates many of the country's beloved novels, poems, short stories, children's books and seminal works of non-fiction. It also contains contributions on their favourite Australian books from many distinguished writers and readers, including Helen Garner, Les Murray and Tim Winton.

Australian Classics is an impassioned and inspiring feast of the great writing that makes exalted readers of us all and a testament to the wide-ranging and remarkable literature of this continent.
 

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Introduction
1
1 Robbery Under Arms
8
2 Such is Life
18
3 The Sick Stockrider
26
4 His Natural Life
32
5 The Chosen Vessel
40
6 The Man From Snowy River
47
7 Nationality
54
29 Power Without Glory
188
30 No More Boomerang
195
31 Storm Boy
201
32 The Lucky Country
208
33 Milk and Honey
216
34 The Acolyte
222
35 The Glass Canoe
228
36 The Tyranny of Distance
234

8 The Drovers Wife
60
9 Lilith
67
10 Seven Little Australians
75
11 The Getting of Wisdom
81
12 The Gentle Water Bird
87
13 My Brilliant Career
93
14 The Magic Pudding
99
15 Coonardoo
106
16 10 For 66 and All That
112
17 Lucinda Brayford
118
18 A Fortunate Life
124
19 Picnic at Hanging Rock
131
20 Five Bells
137
21 Capricornia
143
22 The Man Who Loved Children
149
23 The PeaPickers
154
24 A Letter from Rome
160
25 Voss
166
26 My Brother Jack
172
27 Woman to Child
178
28 Tirra Lirra by the River
183
37 The Transit of Venus
241
38 An Imaginary Life
248
39 The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
254
40 Visitants
260
41 Grand Days
266
42 The BuladelahTaree Holiday Song Cycle
274
43 The Fatal Shore
280
44 The Plains
288
45 Monkey Grip
294
46 Our Sunshine
300
47 True History of the Kelly Gang
306
48 Lilians Story
312
49 My Place
317
50 Cloudstreet
323
Index to Boxes and Favourite Australian books
331
Bibliography
333
Permissions
337
Acknowledgements
338
Back flap
339
Back cover
340
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Página 167 - Yes,' answered Voss, without hesitation. 'I will cross the continent from one end to the other. I have every intention to know it with my heart. Why I am pursued by this necessity, it is no more possible for me to tell than it is for you, who have made my acquaintance only before yesterday.
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Jane Gleeson-White is the author of Double Entry: How the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world - and how their invention could make or break the planet (2011), Australian Classics (2007) and Classics (2005) She is a PhD student in creative writing at the University of New South Wales and has degrees in economics and literature from the University of Sydney and was an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. She blogs at bookishgirl.com.au.

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