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  • Finding Meaning

    Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature

    Series series Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
    Winner of the Native American Literature Symposium's Beatrice Medicine Award for Published MonographIn this first extensive study of contemporary Hawaiian literature, Brandy Nalani McDougall examines a vibrant selection of fiction, poetry, and drama by emerging and established Hawaiian authors, including Haunani-Kay Trask, John Dominis Holt, Imaikalani Kalahele, and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. At ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Allegories of the Anthropocene

    In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In these works, authors and artists use allegory as a means to understand the multiscalar complexities of the Anthropocene and to critique the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Secret of Hanging Rock

    With Commentaries by John Taylor, Yvonne Rousseau and Mudrooroo

    by Joan Lindsay ...
    Joan Lindsay's classic novel Picnic at Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period of Australian social life drawn with loving nostalgia. The final chapter of the novel was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged to know the solution.The missing chapter reveals what did happen to the schoolgirls who vanished ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Animals of the Australian Outback

    Animal Encyclopedia for Kids - Wildlife

    Series series Children's Animal Books
    What are the beautiful and scary animals you see in the great Australian outback? Allow your child to discover the diversity of life in Australia through pictures and texts. The fact that this book uses real-life pictures, and not cartoons, make it easy for kids to fall in love with every turn of the page. Pictures, after all, make knowledge universal and easier to understand. Buy a copy now! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Magic Pudding ( Complete & Illustrated )(Free AudioBook Link)

    Series series Greenhouse Classics
    Wanting to see the world, Bunyip Bluegum the koala sets out on his travels, taking only a walking stick. At about lunchtime, feeling more than slightly peckish, he meets Bill Barnacle the sailor and Sam Sawnoff the penguin who are eating a pudding. The pudding is a magic one which, no matter how much one eats it, always reforms into a whole pudding again. He is called Albert, has thin arms and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

    This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!NovelsAlcott, Louisa May: Little WomenAusten, Jane: Pride and PrejudiceAusten, Jane: EmmaBalzac, Honoré de: Father GoriotBarbusse, Henri: The InfernoBrontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell HallBrontë, Charlotte: Jane EyreBrontë, Emily: Wuthering HeightsBurroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the ApesButler,... ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bush Studies And Human Toll : Timeless Story

    Series series Classic Novels
    Bush Studies is the timeless short stories, published in 1902 and Human Toll is the timeless novel, published in 1907, written by Barbara Baynton an Australian writer.“Boshy, coming out to harangue the chained dog, heard the tintin jangling of their billies and pannikins in their hasty, unorganized flight. The gins, burdened with pickaninnies and camp-gear, were whimpering well in the rear, but ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • On Tim Winton

    Writers on Writers

    Series series Writers on Writers
    In this beautifully written personal essay, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Geraldine Brooks offers readers brilliant insights into the work of one of Australia’s greatest living writers, Tim Winton.In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

    This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Novels Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature

    Edited by Jane Stafford, Mark Williams ...
    From the earliest records of exploration and encounter to the globalized, multicultural present, this compilation features New Zealand's major writing, from Polynesian mythology to the Yates' Garden Guide, from Allen Curnow to Alice Tawhai, and from Wiremu Te Rangikaheke's letters to Katherine Mansfield's notebooks. Including fiction, nonfiction, letters, speeches, novels, stories, comics, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unnatural Narratology

    Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges

    Series series THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV
    Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges offers a number of developments, refinements, and defenses of key aspects of unnatural narrative studies. The first section applies unnatural narrative theory and analysis to ideologically charged areas such as feminism, postcolonial studies, cultural alterity, and subaltern discourse. The book goes on to engage with and intervene in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs

    This collection of essays leads into the eccentric imagination of Gerald Murnane, one of the masters of contemporary Australian writing. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Summary of The Narrow Road to the Deep North

    by Richard Flanagan | Includes Analysis

    The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan - A 15-minute Summary & AnalysisPLEASE NOTE: This is an unofficial summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book.Inside this Instaread:• Summary of entire book• Introduction to the Important People in the book• Analysis of the Themes and Author’s StylePreview of this Instaread:The Narrow Road to the De... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Book Self

    The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic

    by C. K. Stead ...
    A sequel to the successful books Kin of Place and The Writer at Work, this collection of critical writing takes the reader on a personal journey from the author's earliest discovery of poetry as a young man to his latest experiences on the literary trail. This trip through literary history involves many writers, including Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, Michael King, and Elizabeth Knox. The book ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wake in Fright

    by Tina Kaufman ...
    Based on Kenneth Cook's classic novel, this film about bored schoolteacher John Grant getting caught in an outback nightmare of booze, racism, misogyny and bloodlust was made in 1971 and lost until 2004. In this insightful monograph, Tina Kaufman discusses what lies behind Wake in Fright: the genesis of the film, how it was made, how it was allowed to get lost, and the long path of its rediscovery ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Simon Leys

    Navigator between Worlds

    Translated by Julie Rose ...
    An award-winning biography of one of the greats.Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from 1987 to 1993. He died in 2014.Writing in three languages – French, Chinese and English – he played an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities

    Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature

    Edited by Jean-François Vernay ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Literature
    This exciting one-of-a-kind volume brings together new contributions by geographically diverse authors who range from early career researchers to well-established scholars in the field.It unprecedentedly showcases a wide variety of the latest research at the intersection of Australian literary studies and cognitive literary studies in a single volume.It takes Australian fiction on the leading edge ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Der schweizerische Robinson

    Der schweizerische Robinson Johann David Wyss - Die Geschichte von Robinson Crusoe gehört zu den packendsten Abenteuern der Weltliteratur und zu den Klassikern der Kinderliteratur! Vor über 200 Jahren schuf Johann David Wyss auf dieser Grundlage eine Robinsonade für Kinder, die ein internationaler Erfolg wurde. Statt des einsamen Robinsons strandet bei Wyss eine sechsköpfige Schweizer Familie und ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine

    by Paul Sharrad ...
    Thomas Keneally is known as a best-selling novelist and public figure in his Australian homeland and has also managed a transnational career. He is, however, something of a conundrum in being regularly disparaged by critics and often failing to meet expectations of sales. ‘Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine’ explains some of the reasons behind such disparities, focusing in part on ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique

    Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity

    by Andrew McCann ...
    Series series Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series
    Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the country’s most politically engaged writers. These terms – recognition, commercial success, political engagement – suggest a relationship to forms of public discourse that belies the extremely confronting nature of much of Tsiolkas’s fiction and his ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Translating Cultural Identity

    French Translations of Australian Crime Fiction

    Series Book 28 - New Trends in Translation Studies
    The genre of crime fiction – so often rooted in the details of a place, time and subculture – enjoys significant international popularity and provides readers with a unique opportunity to explore the different cultural identities represented in its texts. This book offers a convincing rationale to illustrate how crime fiction in translation can be especially productive when examining the ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Patrick White Beyond the Grave

    Edited by Ian Henderson, Anouk Lang ...
    Series series Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series
    Patrick White (1912–1990) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 and remains one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. This book represents new work by an outstanding list of White scholars from around the globe. White’s centenary revived mainstream interest in White in Australia and included a major exhibition on his life at the National Library of Australia. So too did the discovery of a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music

    ‘Imagined Sound’ is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of ‘imagined sound’, a new way to read and listen to literature and music that moves beyond the dominance of the visual, the colonial mode of knowing, controlling and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mediating Memory

    Tracing the Limits of Memoir

    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir challenges and dismantles that assumption. Focusing on the history, theory and practice of memoir writing, editors Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue Joseph provide a thorough and cutting-edge examination of memoir through the lenses of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD