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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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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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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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Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for…
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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…
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…
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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Denise Varney
One of the giants of Australian literature and the only Australian writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White received less acclaim when he turned his hand…
An essential late novel from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series
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…
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Looking for a trip that combines stunning scenery, historical sites, and medieval castles? Poland is the only place to look! With our thorough and enticing "Poland Travel Guide," set out…
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The "Copenhagen Travel Guide" is your pass to discovering the essence and heart of Scandinavia's most alluring city. This guide promises a memorable vacation you'll enjoy forever, with everything from…
With our thorough and engaging "Cyprus Travel Guide," discover the secrets of the Mediterranean gem Cyprus. As you open the pages of this essential book, let the vistas, history, and…
Embark on an extraordinary journey through the fascinating city of Athens, where history, culture, and adventure await at every step. Introducing the "Athens Travel Guide" - your passport to discovering…
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…
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…
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…
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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Alma Budurlean
The central argument of the thesis, the representation and reception of otherness, is followed throughout White’s novels with the support of a complex critical instrumentarium made up of postcolonial theory…
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…
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Peter Wolfe
In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and change, The Eye of the Storm, was…
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…
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Carolyn Bliss
This study examines all eleven novels of Patrick White, the great Australian writer and Nobel Prize-winner. Evolution of this theme is traced through forty years of White’s fiction: from his…
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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…
G.J. Clarke
The creative act, claims Nicolas Berdyaev, is a prefiguration of the end of the world. To what extent is fiction an exploration of the ultimate ends of humanity - of…
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Patrick Schwenk, Ruth Schwenk
Connect with God as a family in just a few minutes each night You love your children and want to pass your faith on to them, but in the busy…
Ruth Schwenk, Patrick Schwenk
Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from…
Carrying forward the momentum of the twenty-first-century ‘rediscovery’ of Patrick White (1912-1990), winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, this book features work by White scholars aiming to stimulate…
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…
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…
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…
Patrick White's classic 1965 drama The Season at Sarsaparilla is 'a charade of suburbia', a play of shadows, rather than substance.
The neighbours that populate the play are held by…
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…
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…
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…
""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…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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…
Explore the curiosities of our galaxy with this comprehensive, digestible guide to astronomy!
