Author : Daisy White
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0642107645
Fontainbleu, outside Paris, is almost as far from country Australia - spiritually and geographically - as a schoolgirl can get. But that is where Margaret Isabel White, known as Daisy, found herself for the final years of her education. This intensely personal account of her teenage life has been thoughtfully annotated by editor Riviere.
Author : Israel Zangwill
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Jews
ISBN :
Author : Ros Pesman
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Travel has always been central to the experience of living in Australia and to giving that life meaning. This book is the first serious anthology of Australian overseas travel writing. The editors have assembled sixty extracts from the works of writers, soldiers, explorers, missionaries, journalists, and public figures. Contributors include Alfred Deakin, Henry Lawson, Ethel Turner, Douglas Mawson, Martin Boyd, Frank Clune, Patrick White, Jill Kerr Conway, Christopher Koch, Alan Moorehead, David Malouf, Clive James, Germaine Greer, Peter Conrad, and Robyn Davidson. There is an extended introduction and there are numerous historical and biographical notes.
Author : Andrew Hassam
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781902210629
Basing his analysis largely on the unpublished writings of some of the many "neither English nor foreign" Australian visitors to the mother country in the last quarter of the 19th century, Hassam (Australian studies, U. of Wales) concludes that both British and Australian national identities are products of cultural displacement. Includes period illustrations. Distributed in the US by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Ros Pesman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
Illuminating account of Australian women's travel from the 1870's to the arrival of the Jumbo Jet.
Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2023-01-01T20:36:53Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Elmer Gantry isn’t suited to be a lawyer, so he becomes a preacher instead. Although he experiences a variety of failures, and even more successes, Gantry ultimately finds this new career path suits him very well indeed—despite his drinking and womanizing. Throughout his time as a preacher Gantry progresses through the hierarchies of the Baptist and Methodist churches, dabbles in revivalism and “New Thought,” and even experiments with politics, all the while emerging from scandals relatively unscathed and ready to move onward and upward once again. Sinclair Lewis published the satirical Elmer Gantry in 1927 much to the dismay of the religious community. It was denounced from the pulpit, banned by many, and even engendered threats of violence. Despite this—or perhaps because of it—it went on to become a massive success and the best selling novel of that year. One of the most savage satirical assaults against institutionalized religion and its hypocrisy in American literature, Elmer Gantry continues to be a window into a particularly important aspect of American history. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : Jerome K. Jerome
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473373417
This early work by Jerome K. Jerome was originally published in 1891 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Diary of a Pilgrimage' is a novel set during a journey to Oberammergau, in Bavaria, to see the Passion play that is performed there every ten years. Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, England in 1859. Both his parents died while he was in his early teens, and he was forced to quit school to support himself. In 1889, Jerome published his most successful and best-remembered work, 'Three Men in a Boat'. Featuring himself and two of his friends encountering humorous situations while floating down the Thames in a small boat, the book was an instant success, and has never been out of print. In fact, its popularity was such that the number of registered Thames boats went up fifty percent in the year following its publication.
Author : Patrick White
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Novelists, Australian
ISBN : 9781742759005
"A self-portrait that is as brilliant original as White's fiction and drama. 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 he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but 'unable to produce him', he prefers to remain private, or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature can ever be. In this book is the self Patrick White does recognise, the one he sees reflected in the glass."
Author : Robert Louis 1850-1894 Stevenson
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781374275881
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Author : Judy White
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Belltrees (N.S.W.)
ISBN : 9780959396607
