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11 66 y separately published work icon The Middle Parts of Fortune : Somme and Ancre, 1916 Frederic Manning , 1929 single work novel war literature

'The drumming of the guns continued, with bursts of great intensity. It was as though a gale streamed overhead, piling up great waves of sound, and hurrying them onwards to crash in surf on the enemy entrenchments. The windless air about them, by its very stillness, made that unearthly music more terrible to hear.

'First published anonymously in 1929 because its language was considered far too frank for public circulation, The Middle Parts of Fortune was hailed by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, by Lawrence of Arabia and Ernest Hemingway, as an extraordinary novel. Its author was in fact Frederic Manning, an Australian writer who fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and who told his story of men at war from the perspective of an ordinary soldier.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)
3 2 y separately published work icon The Lost Testament Alan Gold , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 1994 Z551478 1994 single work novel 'A suspense-filled thriller, ripped from tomorrow's headlines--when the sacred meets the secular, mankind will stop at nothing in the name of the word. When the news is heard that a prophetic testament written by Jesus Christ may yet exist, scholars, fortune hunters, religious groups, and reporters converge on the site within hours. Their reasons vary, but their desire is the same.' (Publication summary)
7 14 y separately published work icon The Way Home: Being the Second Part of the Chronicle of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Henry Handel Richardson , London : Heinemann , 1925 Z55593 1925 single work novel historical fiction
9 32 y separately published work icon Ultima Thule : Being the Third Part of the Chronicle of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Henry Handel Richardson , London : Heinemann , 1929 Z430784 1929 single work novel historical fiction
8 54 y separately published work icon The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Australia Felix Henry Handel Richardson , London : Heinemann , 1917 Z430677 1917 single work novel historical fiction

'He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all…deep down in him, he knew, was an enormous residue of vitality…It was like a buried treasure, jealously kept for the event of his one day catching up with life: not the bare scramble for a living that here went by that name, but Life with a capital L.

'Richard Mahony is a restless man. Ballarat, England, Melbourne, Europe, the bush: elsewhere is always better.

'Searching for a place, a meaning, a life, Mahony and his wife Mary journey from wealth to poverty, order to chaos, sanity to the asylum. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a towering novel.' (Publication summary)
3 91 y separately published work icon Patrick White : A Life David Marr , London : Jonathan Cape , 1991 Z307107 1991 single work biography 'Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biography draws not only on a wide range of original research but also on the single most difficult and important source of all: the man himself. Gracefully written and exhaustively researched, Patrick White is a biography of classic excellence - sympathetic, objective, penetrating and as blunt, when necessary, as White himself.' (Source: LibrariesAustralia)
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