Patrick White
| Author | : May-Brit Akerholt |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2023-12-14 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9004658394 |
A Cheery Soul
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A Cheery Soul
| Author | : Patrick White |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 87 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780868196602 |
Reissue of a play first published 1965 as part of the collection 'Four Plays'. Lonely Miss Docker is taken in by a well-meaning couple with the best of intentions when she is left homeless, but the situation does not work out. She moves into a home for the aged, where she is met with a mixed reaction. Playwright was also a novelist, and one of Australia's most renowned literary figures. He was awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. Other titles include the novel 'The Eye of the Storm' and play 'Big Toys'.
Joy & Sorrow
| Author | : Joy Nason |
| Publisher | : Joy Nason |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2018-10-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0992489237 |
Joy Nason was born into an English working class family during World War Two and raised in the fundamentalist Christian cult of the Exclusive Brethren. Growing up in this strict and demanding world, her family migrated to Australia in the 1950s. In her early 20s, Joy made the courageous decision to flee her family, knowing that she would be cut off from that moment on. Slowly but surely Joy made her way in the world, with kind employers who encouraged her to gain skills, and friends who helped her with socialising, travel and a new-found enjoyment of life. Through many jobs and disappointing liaisons, to finally becoming a mother of a baby boy, Joy picks herself up after each failure and faces the world with determination and a positive attitude. Joy finally entered the world of education - denied her by her sect - and attained teaching degrees, through which she became Senior Head Teacher at New South Wales TAFE. With Joy and Sorrow, Joy made the decision to go public with her life and experiences, partly to give inspiration to others trapped in similar situations, but also to add to the body of evidence exposing the hypocrisy of the Exclusive Brethren. This secretive sect, now re-branded the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, will stop at nothing to maintain their Charitable status - and keep their tax-free millions.
The Lost Legion
| Author | : William Andrew Robertson Chapin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 438 |
| Release | : 1926 |
| Genre | : Medicine, Military |
| ISBN | : |
Patrick White's Theatre
| Author | : Denise Varney |
| Publisher | : Sydney University Press |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2021-09-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1743327560 |
“Varney combines a theoretically astute sense of the hybridity of the dramatic event, with a dense but lucidly rendered sociological history of White’s plays as they progress through different productions, revivals, and receptions … This is an essential insight, and one which could be usefully extended to White’s novels, and perhaps to Australian modernism broadly.” - Jonathan Dunk, Australian Book Review One of the giants of Australian literature and the only Australian writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White received less acclaim when he turned his hand to playwriting. In Patrick White’s Theatre, Denise Varney offers a new analysis of White’s eight published plays, discussing how they have been staged and received over a period of 60 years. From the sensational rejection of The Ham Funeral by the Adelaide Festival in 1962 to 21st-century revivals incorporating digital technology, these productions and their reception illustrate the major shifts that have taken place in Australian theatre over time. Varney unpacks White’s complex and unique theatrical imagination, the social issues that preoccupied him as a playwright, and his place in the wider Australian modernist and theatrical traditions.
Fortune Telling for Everyone - A Complete Manual of Fortune-Telling by Astrology, Cards, Tea Leaves, Palmistry, Phrenology, and Other Methods
| Author | : Anon |
| Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2024-05-30 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 152879978X |
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Ode to a Banker
| Author | : Lindsey Davis |
| Publisher | : Hodder & Stoughton |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2019-04-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1529374472 |
In the long, hot Roman Summer of AD74, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus, a wealthy Greek banker and patron to a group of struggling writers, who offers to publish Falco's work - a golden opportunity that rapidly palls. A visit to the Chrysippusscriptorium implicates him in a gruesome literary murder so when Petronius Longus, the over-worked vigiles enquiry chief, commissions him to investigate, Falco is forced to accept. Lindsey Davis' twelfth novel wittily explores Roman publishing and banking, taking us from the jealousies of authorship and the mire of patronage, to the darker financial world, where default can have fatal consequences . . . Praise for Lindsey Davis 'Lindsey Davis has seen off all her competitors to become the unassailable market leader in the 'crime in Ancient Rome' genre . . . Davis's squalid, vibrant Rome is as pleasurable as ever' - Guardian 'Davis's prose is a lively joy . . . sinister and gloriously real' - The Times on Sunday 'For fans of crime fiction set in the ancient world, this one is not to be missed' - Booklist 'Davis's books crackle with wit and knowledge . . . She has the happy knack of making the reader feel entirely immersed in Rome' - The Times
