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Out of the Line of Fire - Text Classics by Mark Henshaw
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
I felt as though I was walking on a precariously thin, transparent laminate between the mirror image of two separate worlds. Any minute, if I lost my footing and missed meeting the foot which rose to meet mine, I ran the risk of falling through. When Wolfi, a brilliant young philosophy student, begins r ...Show more
Outbreak of Love - Text Classics by Martin Boyd
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of unilluminated directions. But when we know where we want to go and press the right button, the route is illuminated before us in electric clarity. Diana von Flugel warned her husband: a piece of toast that har ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mill ...Show more
Quiet Earth by Craig Harrison
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
'I was sitting bolt upright in bed breathing fast and staring at the wall. The daylight was streaming into the motel room through the slats of the blinds. I seemed to have been awake, and asleep, for ages...' John Hobson, a geneticist, wakes one morning to find his watch stopped at 6.12. The streets are ...Show more
Rose Boys - Text Classics by Peter Rose
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years after just another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and friends, and thousands of others who hardly knew him, I want to go back there, I want to examine my brother's life and reanimate him... ...Show more
Selected Stories: Text Classics by Katherine Mansfield
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: Very Good
Here in one volume are twenty-three of the finest stories by Katherine Mansfield. Considered one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century, Mansfield was from a young age heavily influenced by Anton Chekhov, a master of the form. This new selection, with an introduction by the novelist ...Show more
Songs of a Sentimental Bloke - Text Classics by Dennis C. J.
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Introduced by Jack Thompson The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, a comic verse novel, was first published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions within a year. By the mid-1970s nearly three hundred thousand copies had been sold internationally. One of the most famous ...Show more
Stiff: Text Classics by Shane Maloney
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
The fiddle at the Pacific Pastoral meat-packing works was a nice little earner for all concerned until Herb Gardiner reported finding a body in number 3 chiller. An accident, of course, but just the excuse a devious political operator might grab to stir up trouble with the unions. Enter Murray Whelan, m ...Show more
Strine: Text Classics by AFFERBECK LAUDER
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
How's your ebb tide? Do you sign on the dotted lion? Is your tea nature Orpheus Rocker? Who is Charlie Charm Puck in 'Waltzing Matilda'? There was never any book about Australian speech like Strine or about posh British speech like Fraffly Well Spoken. Here, collected in one volume, are Afferbeck Lauder ...Show more
Such is Life by Joseph Furphy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
A classic of the Australian outback, Such Is Life is the farcical, tragic reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue. As Tom drives his team across the plains of the Riverina and northern Victoria, he gets entangled in the fate of others like Rory O'Halloran, the two Alfs (Nosey and Warrigal) a ...Show more
Swords and Crowns and Rings: Text Classics by Ruth Park
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Jackie Hanna, born with dwarfism, and Cushie Moy, the girl next door, share an innocent love--a love that will be censured, but will persevere. This is the story of the triumph of a special kind of courage.Ruth Park's Miles Franklin-winning novel brilliantly evokes Australia in the Great Depression.
Terra Australis: Text Classics by Matthew Flinders
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and com ...Show more