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A Fringe Of Leaves by Patrick White
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Set in Australia in the 1840s, A Fringe of Leaves combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner ...Show more
Happy Valley - Text Classics by Patrick White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Originally published in 1939, Happy Valley is set in a small country town in the Snowy Mountains. Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valley paints a portrait of a community in a desolate landscape. I ...Show more
Happy Valley: Text Classics by Patrick White
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Patrick White's magnificent debut novel - first published 1939, long out of print and now a Text Classic.Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valleypaints a portrait of a community in a desolate landsc ...Show more
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
This title comes with an introduction by David Malouf. Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil ...Show more
The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author. With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creating ...Show more
The Hanging Garden by Patrick White
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl is the daughter of a Sydney woman and a Communist executed in a Greek prison. In wartime Australia, these two children form an extraordinary bo ...Show more
The Hanging Garden by Patrick White
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A previously unpublished novel from the Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl is the daughter of a Sydney woman and a Communist ...Show more
The Tree Of Man by Patrick White
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"One of Patrick White's most loved novels in which he creates a memorable portrait of human resilience Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to a remote scrubby patch of land that he has inherited in the Australian hills. When the land is cleared enough for a rudimentary hous ...Show more
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With the androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, this title takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.
The Vivisector by Patrick White
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Patrick White masterpiece, now in a Vintage Classics edition. Hurtle Duffield, a painter, is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel ...Show more
Voss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1957 by Patrick White
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The novel that put Australian literature on the map is now in a Vintage Classic edition The novel that put Australian literature on the map is now in a Vintage Classic edition Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naive young woman. Alth ...Show more
Voss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1957 by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The novel that put Australian literature on the map is now in a Vintage Classic editionSet in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a na ve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive ...Show more
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