A Certain Style
A Certain Style

Author: Jacqueline Kent

Publisher: NewSouth

Published: 2018-09-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1742244300

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Beatrice Davis, 1909-1992, was general editor at Angus and Robertson the main Australian publishing company from 1937 to 1973. There she discovered and published such writers as Thea Astley, Miles Franklin, Patricia Wrightson, Xavier Herbert and Hal Porter becoming a literary tastemaker in the process. A central figure in Australian literature – ‘respected, feared, courted and berated.’ Originally published to great acclaim in 2001, A Certain Style introduced this stylish and formidable woman to thousands of readers and told a history of books and publishing in twentieth-century Australia. This reissue has a new introduction and updates throughout as the author presents a compelling account of a contradictory woman and her times.

Australian Short Story
Australian Short Story

Author: Laurie Hergenhan

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2015-11-23

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 0702258008

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Henry Lawson · Barbara Baynton ·Henry Handel Richardson · Katharine Susannah Prichard · Christina Stead ·Gavin Casey ·Vance Palmer · Alan Marshall · Marjorie Barnard ·Judah Waten · John Morrison · Peter Cowan · Hal Porter · Patrick White · Thelma Forshaw ·Dal Stivens · Peter Carey Murray Bail · Frank Moorhouse · T.A.G. Hungerford · Elizabeth Jolley · Michael Wilding · Olga Masters · Beverley Farmer · Fay Zwicky · Barry Hill · Gerald Murnane · Archie Weller · Thea Astley · Helen Garner · Lily Brett · Susan Hampton · Gail Jones In this bestselling collection the Australian short story is represented from its Bulletin beginnings to its vigorous revival in the late twentieth century.

Eddy and the Demon Bowler
Eddy and the Demon Bowler

Author: Jane Carroll

Publisher: Omnibus Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 9781862914513

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Novel for primary school-age readers. Eddy's cricket team are facing a formidable enemy in the Dimbat kids, who are all dressed in white, look much bigger than Eddy's team, and have the Demon Bowler on their side.

The Australian Short Story
The Australian Short Story

Author: Laurie Hergenhan

Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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Revised edition with additional stories of a collection originally published in 1986. Features stories by well-known writers such as Henry Lawson, Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead, Alan Marshall, Peter Carey and Thea Ashley. Includes biographical notes, a selected bibliography, an index and an introduction by the editor, who is professor of Australian literature at the University of Queensland, and editor of 'Australian Literary Studies'.

The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories
The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories

Author: Michael Wilding

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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49 stories ranging over 120 years. Stories reflect life in Australia from the early days of hardship to the recognition of a multicultural society and the new agendas for women's, gay and lesbian, and Aboriginal writing.

Australian Short Fiction
Australian Short Fiction

Author: Bruce Bennett

Publisher: St. Lucia, Qld., Australia : University of Queensland Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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In this first extended study of Australian short fiction, Bruce Bennett adopts Christina Stead's metaphor of an ocean of story to suggest the universality of story-telling and the marks it leaves for posterity. Bennett's study stresses the range and depth of the short prose narrative in Australia.