Secondhand Australian Literature Bargain Book Box SP2974

Secondhand Australian Literature Bargain Book Box SP2974

Thirteen books at the heart of the Australian literary tradition — Eleanor Dark's colonial epics, Bruce Chatwin's Songlines, Henry Lawson, Thomas Keneally, Rolf Boldrewood, and scholarly anthologies. Strong on the intersection of landscape, history, and fiction.

1. Sensational Melbourne — Susan K. Martin & Kylie Mirmohamadi — A scholarly study of reading, sensation fiction, and Lady Audley's Secret in the Victorian metropolis: how Melbourne's reading public consumed and debated the new popular fiction.
2. Storm of Time — Eleanor Dark — The second volume of Dark's Australian trilogy, following the early settlement of Sydney as it expands and the tensions between colonists and Eora people deepen.
3. The Timeless Land — Eleanor Dark — Dark's landmark historical novel of first contact: the arrival of the First Fleet and the collision of two worlds, told from both perspectives. One of the great Australian novels.
4. World Unknown: An Anthology of Australian Prose — ed. Hume Dow & John Barnes — A substantial anthology of Australian prose from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century.
5. The Boy in the Bush — D.H. Lawrence & M.L. Skinner — The forgotten Australian novel: Lawrence's collaboration with Perth writer Mollie Skinner, set in early Western Australia. Stranger and wilder than most of his English fiction.
6. The Songlines — Bruce Chatwin — Chatwin's sui generis work: part novel, part travel writing, part philosophy. A journey into the Australian outback following the Aboriginal songlines that map the continent.
7. Down by the Dockside — Criena Rohan — The rediscovered Australian novel celebrating the irreparability of the Irish immigrant experience. Originally published in 1963, now recognised as a neglected classic.
8. The Literature of Australia: An Anthology — General Editor Nicholas Jose — A major scholarly anthology covering Australian literature from Indigenous oral traditions to the contemporary period. Foreword by Thomas Keneally.
9. Henry Lawson: Stories for Senior Students — ed. Colin Roderick — A teaching anthology of Lawson's short fiction, selected for senior secondary students.
10. Robbery Under Arms — Rolf Boldrewood — The classic Australian bushranger novel: Captain Starlight and the Marston boys, outlaws in the Queensland bush. The World's Classics edition.
11. No Place for a Nervous Lady: Voices from the Australian Bush — ed. Lucy Frost — Women's voices from the Australian frontier: diaries, letters, and memoirs of women who settled the bush in the nineteenth century.
12. Bring Larks and Heroes — Thomas Keneally — Keneally's early novel of the convict era: a young Irish soldier in the colony, caught between duty, conscience, and love.
13. Henry Lawson: Selected Stories — The essential Lawson in a single volume: the bush stories, the battlers, and the laconic compassion that defined Australian short fiction.