Carry all your books and important stuff in the new Text Classics tote. As Fiona describes in her fascinating introduction, The Dyehouse is one of the very few Australian novels which makes work its central subject. Through her ensemble cast, Calthorpe reveals her proto-tragic apprehension of the psychological and emotional cost of work.
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She also understands how technological change rewrites the drama in every workplace. Set in Karakarook, a tiny town in rural New South Wales, the novel brings together the gawky Douglas Cheeseman and surly Harley Savage in the most unlikely of romances. Watching Harley and Douglas mumble, fumble and stumble their way towards each other is endlessly entertaining—I could read it again and again and again which is surely the indication of a true classic. Originally published in , The Idea of Perfection remains one of my most beloved Australian novels.
It is a heartbreaking portrait of a sibling, a stupendously strong family and how a young man comes to terms with himself—beautifully written by Australian poet and publisher Peter Rose.
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Rose Boys struck a chord with me beyond the page. The book is mostly set in Collingwood and my boyfriend at the time lived next to Victoria Park, and if you stood on your toes while brushing your teeth, you could see the Bob Rose Stand, through the bathroom window. The best thing about the Classics is this: Too eager to be accepted, she quickly tumbles down the social rungs, where she is left to toddle behind the rest of the girls. She is equal parts pitiable and annoying, overzealous in everything she sets her mind to, and often leaves you squirming and laughing at her awkwardness.
Corporal Halloran's this fellow's name. He's a lean boy taking long strides through the Sabbath heat.
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An honest man named Phelim Halloran and Ann Rush, his secret bride. Poet, soldier, lover and grand innocent, Halloran must confront his destiny in a place of tyranny and searing horror. Text Classics Barbara Baynton's short-story collection Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism - for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness. Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Baynton presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it.
Text Classics Reading Level: Teen - Grade , Age Seymour is bored and lonely, and running from a gang of kids when he opens a back-lane gate.
And there is Angie. She is older than Seymour, confident, cool and alluring, and she treats him with the affection of an older sister.
Seymour is captivated-through Angie he is awakened to the fun and adventure in life. But Angie has a dark side-a secret that threatens to destroy her.
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And as Seymour begins to understand that all is not well he knows he has to help her. Came Back to Show You I Could Fly is a heartwarming account of an unlikely friendship that shows a very human side of drug addiction. Say A Little Prayer, the film version, was released in PB, an orphan, lives a secure working-class life in Sydney. That's all about to change, however, when his Aunt Vanessa arrives from London and scoops him up to raise him as her own child.
Text Classics John Egan lives with his mother, father and grandmother in rural Ireland.
The Guinness Book of Records is his favourite book and he wants to visit Niagara Falls with his mother. He served in the American War of Independence, during which he was taken hostage for three months. He was soon promoted to captain lieutenant. In Tench volunteered for a three-year tour of duty to the convict colony of Botany Bay.
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Prior to his departure, Tench was commissioned by the publisher John Debrett of Piccadilly to write a book about his adventures. In fact he wrote two. Both were successful, and were translated into a number of languages.