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Author | : Ruth Park |
Publisher | : Penguin Group Australia |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2009-06-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1742531598 |
Ruth Park's classic novel The Harp in the South is one of Australia's greatest novels. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy. Filled with beautifully drawn characters that will make you laugh as much as cry, this Australian classic will take you straight back to the colourful slums of Sydney with convincing depth, careful detail and great heart.
Author | : Ruth Park |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 1992-09 |
Genre | : Australian |
ISBN | : 9780140146967 |
Reprint of a classic tale by this award-winning author, first published in 1948. Set in the Sydney slums during the late 1940s, it tells of the adventures of the Darcys, a family descended from Irish immigrants. It was followed by a sequel, 'Poor Man's Orange', first published in 1949.
Author | : Ruth Park |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Fiction in English, 1900- Texts |
ISBN | : 9780855946081 |
Author | : Ruth Park |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 683 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Australian fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140104561 |
Long favourites with generations of Australian readers, Ruth Park's classic Harp in the South novels have at last been brought together in one volume. The saga of the Darcy family has its beginnings in the dusty outback. After the turmoil of courtship, Hughie and Mumma move to the inner-city slums of Sydney. There grow the bittersweet first and last loves of their daughter Roie, who becomes a woman too quickly amid the brothels, the razor gangs and the tenements. Ruth Park is a classic storyteller. She writes of the Darcy family, their vitality and humour, and brings to life a community where, despite the odds, life is always exuberant and full of promise.
Author | : Ruth Park |
Publisher | : Penguin Group Australia |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0670076864 |
'Now then,' thought Abigail, 'something very weird has happened to me. I'm in the last century. I don't know why, and that doesn't matter. I've got to get back.' Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our country's most memorable children's books in the Penguin Australia Children's Classics series of stories too precious to leave behind.
Author | : Ruth Park |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Australian fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140176018 |
Missustakes us behind the lives of Hughie and Mumma, out of the gritty realism of inner city slum life and into the past of the stations, the bush and the country towns. We meet them as they were in the early 1920s, drifter Hugh Darcy, the unwilling hero who sweeps the dreamily innocent Margaret Kilker off her feet. Ruth Park richly creates the turmoil of those early days of their courtship in the dusty outback.
Author | : Hazel Prior |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1984803794 |
A rich, heartwarming and charming debut novel that reminds us that sometimes you find love in the most unexpected places. Dan Hollis lives a happy, solitary life carving exquisite Celtic harps in his barn in the countryside of the English moors. Here he can be himself, away from social situations that he doesn’t always get right or completely understand. On the anniversary of her beloved father’s death, Ellie Jacobs takes a walk in the woods and comes across Dan’s barn. She is enchanted by his collection. Dan gives her a harp made of cherrywood to match her cherry socks. He stores it for her, ready for whenever she’d like to take lessons. Ellie begins visiting Dan almost daily and quickly learns that he isn’t like other people. He makes her sandwiches precisely cut into triangles and repeatedly counts the (seventeen) steps of the wooden staircase to the upstairs practice room. Ellie soon realizes Dan isn’t just different; in many ways, his world is better, and he gives her a fresh perspective on her own life.
Author | : John Steinbeck |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2002-02-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101659793 |
Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Dora, Mack and his boys, Lee Chong, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. In her introduction, Susan Shillinglaw shows how the novel expresses, both in style and theme, much that is essentially Steinbeck: “scientific detachment, empathy toward the lonely and depressed…and, at the darkest level…the terror of isolation and nothingness.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author | : John Steinbeck |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1994-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101659815 |
“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.” Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security.... A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author | : Ruth Park |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Poor |
ISBN | : 9780207173523 |