Happiness: Selected Short Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark collection of Australian short fiction, Happiness: Selected Short Stories gathers some of Katharine Susannah Prichard's most celebrated and enduring work, showcasing her remarkable range across rural landscapes, working-class lives, and the intimate struggles of ordinary people. Prichard writes with unflinching realism and deep social conscience, illuminating the lives of those on the margins — miners, farmers, Indigenous Australians, and women navigating a world that rarely grants them ease. Each story presents a vivid, precisely observed slice of Australian life, rendered in prose that is both lyrical and grounded, tender and unsentimental in equal measure. Widely regarded as one of Australia's foremost literary voices of the twentieth century, Prichard illustrates how the pursuit of happiness is rarely simple, often elusive, and always deeply human. This essential collection stands as a testament to her enduring influence on Australian literature and her commitment to stories that speak truth to the full complexity of lived experience.
Author: Katharine Susannah Prichard
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Anthology
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark collection of Australian short fiction, Happiness: Selected Short Stories gathers some of Katharine Susannah Prichard's most celebrated and enduring work, showcasing her remarkable range across rural landscapes, working-class lives, and the intimate struggles of ordinary people. Prichard writes with unflinching realism and deep social conscience, illuminating the lives of those on the margins — miners, farmers, Indigenous Australians, and women navigating a world that rarely grants them ease. Each story presents a vivid, precisely observed slice of Australian life, rendered in prose that is both lyrical and grounded, tender and unsentimental in equal measure. Widely regarded as one of Australia's foremost literary voices of the twentieth century, Prichard illustrates how the pursuit of happiness is rarely simple, often elusive, and always deeply human. This essential collection stands as a testament to her enduring influence on Australian literature and her commitment to stories that speak truth to the full complexity of lived experience.