{"product_id":"secondhand-australian-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2700","title":"Secondhand Australian Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2700","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Australian Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box — 16 Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA box that takes Australian literature seriously across more than a century — from Banjo Paterson's complete collected works to Frank Moorhouse's Geneva-set epic, from Mary Durack's pastoral tragedy to Manning Clark's rarely seen short fiction. The two Paterson volumes together constitute his entire output from 1885 to 1941; Dymphna Cusack contributes two novels; Marele Day moves between biographical fiction and crime; and Jean Devanny appears in a Virago Modern Classics edition that testifies to the international recognition her work has finally received.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA.B. 'Banjo' Paterson — \u003cem\u003eSinger of the Bush: Complete Works 1885–1900\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The first of two volumes collecting everything Paterson wrote — the poems that gave Australia \"The Man from Snowy River,\" \"Clancy of the Overflow,\" and the words to \"Waltzing Matilda.\" The foundation of a national literary mythology, gathered in one place.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFrank Moorhouse — \u003cem\u003eGrand Days\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The first book in Moorhouse's celebrated diptych about Edith Campbell Berry and the League of Nations in interwar Geneva — idealism, diplomacy, and sexual liberation in the 1920s. The companion volume \u003cem\u003eDark Palace\u003c\/em\u003e won the Miles Franklin Award in 2001; \u003cem\u003eGrand Days\u003c\/em\u003e is where it all begins.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarele Day — \u003cem\u003eMrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Elizabeth Cook spent decades waiting for a husband who was always somewhere over the horizon — and Day's biographical fiction gives voice to one of history's most eloquently silent women. Meticulous research and genuine imaginative sympathy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e[Ed.] — \u003cem\u003eThe World of Henry Lawson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e A generously illustrated survey of Lawson's life, work, and times — the man and his world brought together in a volume that serves equally as introduction and celebration of Australia's most beloved prose writer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eM. Barnard Eldershaw — \u003cem\u003eA House is Built\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The remarkable collaborative novel by Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw, first published in 1929 — a family saga set in colonial Sydney's mercantile world that stands as one of the earliest and most accomplished Australian historical novels. A significant find.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA.B. 'Banjo' Paterson — \u003cem\u003eSong of the Pen: Complete Works 1901–1941\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The second and final volume of Paterson's complete works — together with \u003cem\u003eSinger of the Bush\u003c\/em\u003e, forming the definitive collection of one of Australia's most beloved writers. Both volumes in the same box is a rare and welcome occurrence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFrank Moorhouse — \u003cem\u003eLoose Living\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Moorhouse's comic masterpiece — a novel incorporating \"Cuisine Cruelle\" and the elaborate misadventures of his alter ego the Duc — shows the other side of the writer who produced the grand Geneva sequence: anarchic, satirical, and very funny.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Dabbs — \u003cem\u003eBeyond Redemption\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e A novel about falling capriciously in love during the social rigidities of the 1950s — Dabbs capturing the particular atmosphere of an era whose conformity made every deviation feel simultaneously thrilling and dangerous.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDymphna Cusack — \u003cem\u003eSouthern Steel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Cusack was one of the most important and politically committed Australian novelists of the mid-twentieth century. \u003cem\u003eSouthern Steel\u003c\/em\u003e — set in the industrial world of the steel towns — brings her characteristic social realism and feminist intelligence to bear on working-class life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDymphna Cusack — \u003cem\u003ePicnic Races\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Cusack's second appearance in this box — a novel that takes the rituals of country racing life as its frame for an examination of Australian social dynamics, class, and the gap between performance and reality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarele Day — \u003cem\u003eThe Case of the Chinese Boxes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(A Claudia Valentine Thriller)\u003c\/em\u003e Day's second appearance, but in a different register entirely — this is one of the Claudia Valentine crime novels that made Day a pioneer of Australian feminist crime fiction. Pacy, sharp, and very Sydney.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMary Durack — \u003cem\u003eKeep Him My Country\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Durack — whose family history \u003cem\u003eKings in Grass Castles\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the great documents of Australian pastoral life — turns here to fiction: a station owner's love for an Aboriginal woman, and everything that stands between them. Compassionate, unflinching, and ahead of its time in 1955.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Devanny — \u003cem\u003eCindie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (Virago Modern Classics) Devanny was a New Zealand-born Australian novelist, Communist activist, and one of the more remarkable figures in the country's literary history. \u003cem\u003eCindie\u003c\/em\u003e, set in the Queensland sugar industry, is her finest novel — and the Virago Modern Classics edition marks its proper place in the broader tradition of women's writing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAlex Buzo — \u003cem\u003eThe Beauty of Henry Allman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Buzo was one of the great figures of Australian theatre — \u003cem\u003eNorm and Ahmed\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRooted\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Front Room Boys\u003c\/em\u003e — and his prose fiction carries the same ear for dialogue and the same satirical intelligence that made his plays essential.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJoan Dugdale — \u003cem\u003eThe Gripping Beast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Dugdale's UQP novel takes its title from the interlaced animal designs of Viking ornament — and brings a similarly intricate, knotted quality to its fiction. An interesting and distinctive Australian literary voice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eManning Clark — \u003cem\u003eCollected Short Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The great historian — author of the monumental six-volume \u003cem\u003eA History of Australia\u003c\/em\u003e — is almost unknown as a short fiction writer, which makes this collection genuinely rare. Clark's stories reveal the same preoccupations with fate, guilt, and the Australian character that run through his historical work, but in a more intimate register.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48759342432475,"sku":"SP2700","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/IMG_0652.jpg?v=1778410638","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-australian-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2700","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}