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  • The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle

    by Paul Eggert, Chris Vening ...
    This is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (1813–68) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life-documents open up successive phases of colonial culture from the 1830s to the 1860s in a newly focused way. Harpur’s two-way correspondence with poet Henry Kendall, and with poet and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • What's in a Surname?

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  • Australian Classics

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  • Green Unpleasant Land

    by Corinne Fowler ...
    Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England's links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly ... Read more

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  • Australia's Writers and Poets: The story of our rich literary heritage

    by John Miller ...
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  • Best Oscar Wilde Quotes

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    One of the greatest playwrights of his time, Wilde was also a novelist, poet, essayist and celebrated wit, noted for his involvement in the art movement Aestheticism. Amongst his many successes were his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and plays such as Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).This compilation brings together ... Read more

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  • The War of the Worlds

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  • More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary

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  • Wild Reciter

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    Just over a century ago poetry was all the rage in Australia. Newspapers and magazines published it, entertainers and elocutionists performed it on stages across the country, and ordinary Australians recited it in schools, local halls and suburban parlours. Yet this communal experience of poetry has now largely disappeared. In The Wild Reciter Peter Kirkpatrick examines how this change occurred by ... Read more

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