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In this autobiography, Dorothy Hewett, an Australian playwright and poet, seeks to create a sense of people, place and political history. Born in Perth in 1923, the daughter of a wheat farmer, she spent her early years roaming the land and battling with her mother. After university, three failed love affairs, an attempted suicide and a major poetry prize, Dorothy Hewett joined the Australian Communist Party in 1945. Four years later she met her first husband and travelled to Sydney with her lover, a boilermaker. Life in the working-class suburbs - where "the air is breathless with soot and smog and the knock-off whistle from the brewery, the print factory and the glassworks punctuate the day" - provided the basis for her novel, "Bobbin' Up".
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9781742583952, titled "Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923-1958" | Univ of Western Australia Pr, May 15, 2012, cover price $29.95
9781853811432 | Virago Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this autobiography, Dorothy Hewett, an Australian playwright and poet, seeks to create a sense of people, place and political history.
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9780230338883 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2011), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Long before the post-WWII migration, over one hundred Australian writers left their homeland to seek fame and fortune in London.
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9781742372686 | Reprint edition (Allen & Unwin, April 1, 2011), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Shirley Hazzard, Tim Winton, Peter Carey, Kate Grenville, Thomas Keneally, David Malouf, Christina Stead, and 43 other remarkable writers represent some of the best literature of a continent What are the classic works of Australian literature, and what can they tell us about Australia as a place and a culture?
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9780674036093 | 1 edition (Belknap Pr, September 15, 2009), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Born in the Australian bush, Stella Miles Franklin became an international publishing sensation in 1901, at the age of 21, with My Brilliant Career, whose portrayal of an ambitious and independent woman defying social expectations still captivates readers.
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Two young Australian women bring their pet monkey when they are invited to a house party, but the weekend is marred by missing jewels and a mysterious murder
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9780702218170 | Reprint edition (Univ of Queensland Pr, June 1, 1985), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Two young Australian women bring their pet monkey when they are invited to a house party, but the weekend is marred by missing jewels and a mysterious murder
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9780702218095 | Univ of Queensland Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Two young Australian women bring their pet monkey when they are invited to a house party, but the weekend is marred by missing jewels and a mysterious murder
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9780702236884 | Univ of Queensland Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Engaging and spirited, this essay collection examines Australian national humor—from the high and low to the classic and the cutting-edge—in literature, performances, and daily life.
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9780702236624 | Univ of Queensland Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Uniquely examining the link between Australian writers and social change, this study investigates the motives behind literary figures who strive to become activists and social intellectuals.
Miscellaneous:
9780702241406 | Univ of Queensland Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $31.99
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9780702236891 | Univ of Queensland Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $123.00 | About this edition: The fourth and final volume of this major collaborative national project details all separately published works of creative literature by Australian writers whose last names begin with P through Z, from European arrival in Australia to the end of the 20th century.
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9781409947134 | Dodo Pr, October 15, 2008, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Barbara Janet Ainsleigh Baynton, Lady Headley (1857- 1929) was an Australian writer, made famous for Bush Studies (1902) which was written in retaliation to Henry Lawson’s works.
9781419111297 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The most pronounced feature of Jyne's face was her mouth, and it seemed proud of its teeth, especially of the top row.
9780207162213 | Angus & Robertson, August 1, 1989, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: The most pronounced feature of Jyne's face was her mouth, and it seemed proud of its teeth, especially of the top row.
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9780385526173 | 1 edition (Nan a Talese, October 14, 2008), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This is the captivating story behind Schindler’s List, the Booker Prize–winning book and the Academy Award–winning Spielberg film.
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9780385732543, titled "Power Of One" | Delacorte Pr, September 13, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life and the boxing ring, with help from a chicken, a boxer, a pianist, black African prisoners, and many others.
9780394575209 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: An outcast in pre-World War II South Africa, young Peekay learns the power of self-reliance through the pain of the loneliness he experiences
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9780440239130 | Rep abr edition (Laurel Leaf, July 10, 2007), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life and in the boxing ring.
9780345359926 | Mti edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1992), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: An outcast in pre-World War II South Africa, young Peekay learns the power of self-reliance through the pain of the loneliness he experiences
9780345410054 | Mti edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1992), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: “The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.
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9781740936804 | Mp3 una edition (Bolinda Audio, July 30, 2005), cover price $54.95
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9780385902748 | Delacorte Pr, September 13, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life and the boxing ring, with help from a chicken, a boxer, a pianist, black African prisoners, and many others.
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9780606296458, titled "Power of One" | Demco Media, December 1, 1996, cover price $24.55 | About this edition: "Unabashedly uplifting.
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9781439557280 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 4, 2008), cover price $15.99
9780833554253 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
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9780719068324 | Manchester Univ Pr, September 4, 2007, cover price $79.00 | About this edition: Don Randall's comprehensive study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts.
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9780719068331 | Manchester Univ Pr, September 4, 2007, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Don Randall's comprehensive study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts.
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9781421959016 | Indypublish.Com, November 1, 2005, cover price $43.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
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9781421959023 | Indypublish.Com, November 1, 2005, cover price $36.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780424000572 | Intl Specialized Book Service Inc, December 1, 1980, cover price $21.00
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9780702235009 | Univ of Queensland Pr, May 24, 2005, cover price $136.95 | About this edition: The Bibliography of Australian Literature records details of all separately published creative literature by Australian writers over the last two centuries.
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Product Description: As Australia began the process of breaking away from its status as a British colony, Catherine Martin was fascinated with the meaning of Australian culture and identity. She examines these issues through the story of the independent and intelligent Stella Courtland, a young girl who marries and finds herself hampered by the social constraints of her new life...read more
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9780702233685 | Univ of Queensland Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $157.50 | About this edition: As Australia began the process of breaking away from its status as a British colony, Catherine Martin was fascinated with the meaning of Australian culture and identity.
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9780702233739 | Univ of Queensland Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: As Australia began the process of breaking away from its status as a British colony, Catherine Martin was fascinated with the meaning of Australian culture and identity.
9780192839220 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: As Australia began the process of breaking away from its status as a British colony, Catherine Martin was fascinated with the meaning of Australian culture and identity.
9780863582219 | Reprint edition (Pandora Pr, August 1, 1988), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: As Australia began the process of breaking away from its status as a British colony, Catherine Martin was fascinated with the meaning of Australian culture and identity.
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9780702232985 | Univ of Queensland Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Always controversial, poet Michael Dransfield's life story has tended to obscure his talent and achievement.
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9781875606900 | Univ of Queensland Pr, April 1, 2008, cover price $142.00 | About this edition: This exhaustive guide to Australian literature provides a comprehensive look at all works published in Australia within the last two centuries, regardless of genre or perceived literary merit.
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9780521651226 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 21, 2000, cover price $83.99 | About this edition: This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of Australian literature.
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9780521658430 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $41.00 | About this edition: This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of Australian literature.
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9781876268343 | Univ of Western Australia Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $19.95
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9783825827960 | Lit Verlag, August 1, 2000, cover price $24.95
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Product Description: This bibliography concentrates on literature written or orally narrated by Australian Aboriginal and Islander people in English. It presents an overview of the wealth and diversity of black Australian writing up to 1991, together with relevant critical commentary on its literary history, on individual works, writers and institutions...read more
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9780820450575 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 1, 2000, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This bibliography concentrates on literature written or orally narrated by Australian Aboriginal and Islander people in English.
9783906765051 | 2 edition (Peter Lang, April 1, 2000), cover price $105.95 | About this edition: This bibliography concentrates on literature written or orally narrated by Australian Aboriginal and Islander people in English.
9780820434230 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, October 1, 1997, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: This bibliography concentrates on literature written or orally narrated by Australian Aboriginal and Islander people in English.
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Product Description: This is an exploration of body/landscape relations and what is possible when body and language are thought of and written together instead of in opposition to each other. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780742503199 | Altamira Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: This is an exploration of body/landscape relations and what is possible when body and language are thought of and written together instead of in opposition to each other.
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9780936839998 | Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, September 1, 1987, cover price $7.95
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9780732022785 | Unabridged edition (Louis Braille Audio, January 1, 2000), cover price $29.95
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9780312034436 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, September 1, 1989), cover price $14.95
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9781876584245 | Australian Large Print, August 1, 1999, cover price $21.95
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9780521594400 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $92.00 | About this edition: The figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination.
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9780521594998 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: The figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination.
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