Great Anzac Stories: The Men and Women Who Created the Digger Legend by Graham Seal
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Category: Literary Studies
Stories of heroism, suffering and endurance, and humour, from the main wars in which Australians have fought Sales points * Includes stories from WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, plus the home front * Most of the stories haven't been seen since they were first published in newspapers and memoirs * Ma ...Show more
Richard Lederer's Classic Literary Trivia by Richard Lederer
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Category: Literary Studies
Richard Lederer's Classic Literary Trivia from Mythology, Shakespeare, and the Bible < br> What biblical character said, "Am I my brother's keeper?" (Cain) < br> Who was the chief of the ancient Greek gods? (Zeus) < br> Shakespeare's plays are generally classified into which three cate ...Show more
When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
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Category: Literary Studies
Of Marilynne Robinson, Michael Arditti said that there is 'no contemporary novelist whose work I would rather read' However she is not only a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this luminous new collection she returns to the themes which have preo ...Show more
Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century by David Walker
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Category: Literary Studies
To imagine that we confront Asia for the first time in the twenty-first century is to deny our history and the self-awareness that comes from understanding that we have been here before. Asia appears throughout modern Australian history as a source of anxiety or hope. Generic Asia has been imagined, vis ...Show more
The Pocket Companion to Shakespeare's Plays by J. C. Trewin
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Category: Literary Studies
Quarterly Essay 51: The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell by David Marr
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay
Cardinal George Pell is the most prominent Catholic leader in Australia at a time when Church's handling of sexual abuse is being closely investigated. He is also the confessor of prime-minister-in-waiting Tony Abbott. A news-breaking and definitive portrait of Pell, at a time of maximum tension and scr ...Show more
Monkeys with Typewriters by Scarlett Thomas
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Category: Literary Studies
Stories are everywhere...Exploring the great plots from Plato to The Matrix and from Tolstoy to Toy Story, this is a book for anyone who wants to unlock any narrative and learn to create their own. With startling and original insights into how we construct stories, this is a creative writing book like n ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 52: Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World by Linda Jaivin
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Whether we're aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate: culture ...Show more
In Praise of Ageing by Patricia Edgar
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Category: Literary Studies
Retirement is not the time to cut all ties and head off to live in a warm climate but rather to ask: Who do I want to be near? How will my relationships be reaffirmed? What do I care about? What can I create and contribute to the world? Meet Jim Brierley, who was still jumping out of planes aged eighty- ...Show more
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Writers on Writers | Reading Level: very good
When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie - Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith - often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by ...Show more
Fictitious Dishes - An Album of Literature's Most Memorable Meals by Dinah Fried
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Category: Literary Studies
Fifty Iconic Culinary Scenes from Literary Classics Sure to Delight Readers, Foodies, and Photo-Junkies AlikeFictitious Dishes serves up a delectable assortment of photographic interpretations of culinary moments from contemporary and classic literature. Showcasing famous meals such as the madcap tea pa ...Show more
Internal Medicine - A Doctor's Stories by Terrence Holt
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Category: Literary Studies
Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. "Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives," Internal Medicine finds the compassion from ...Show more