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Songs of a Sentimental Bloke - Text Classics by Dennis C. J.
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Text Classics
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
The Plains: Text Classics by Gerald Murnane
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Text Classics Ser.
This is the story of the families of the plains--obsessed with their land and history, their culture and mythology--and of the man who ventured into their world.First published in 1982, The Plainsis a mesmerising work of startling originality. This handsome new hardback edition is introduced by Ben Ler ...Show more
The Tournament: Text Classics by John Clarke
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
The most unusual tennis tournament in history is about to start. Einstein's seeded fourth. Chaplin, Freud and van Gogh are also in the top rankings. World number one is Tony Chekhov. In all, 128 of the world's most creative players - everyone from Louis Armstrong to George Orwell, Gertrude Stein to Coco ...Show more
They're a Weird Mob: Text Classics by Nino Culotta
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Just off the boat from Italy, Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he's never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking. They're a Weird Mobis an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear fo ...Show more
To the Islands: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Text Classics
Behind the uneasy trees rose the hills, and beyond them again the country of the lost, huge wilderness between this last haunt of civilization and the unpeopled sea. Exhausted and losing faith, an Anglican minister flees his mission in Australia's northwest for the vast emptiness of the outback. In the ...Show more
Tobruk 1941: Text Classics by Chester Wilmot
$12.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Text Classics Ser.
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Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.