P. R. Stephensen P. R. Stephensen i(A85403 works by) (Organisation) assertion (a.k.a. Stephensen; P. R. Stephensen & Company; Stephensen and Co.)
Born: Established: 1933 Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: Feb 1935
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1 4 y separately published work icon Vintage Harley Matthews , Sydney : P. R. Stephensen , 1938 Z494529 1938 selected work poetry war literature

''Two Brothers' is ... a long narrative beginning with the preliminaries of the Gallipoli campaign.... 'True Patriot', depicts trench life there, dominated by a corporal whose foolish insistence on strict formal discipline leads to his own disappearance. In ... 'Women Are Not Gentlemen', an enemy sniper, supposed to be a woman, is an invisible factor. The form of the work has its basis in ordinary blank verse, varied by freer usage. The whole is an imaginative transcription in everyday language of a historic phase of warfare having special Australian significance.' E. Morris Miller and Macartney, F.T., Australian Literature : A Bibliography to 1938 Extended to 1950. (1956) 328.
2 41 y separately published work icon Prelude to Christopher Eleanor Dark , Sydney : P. R. Stephensen , 1934 Z824226 1934 single work novel (taught in 22 units)

'Should a woman bear a child knowing that there are traces of insanity in her family? Linda Hainlin, niece of a famous biologist, was aware of the danger when she married Dr. Nigel Hendon, a practical idealist, whose creed was normality and the rational ordering of the world. This book tells how, years later, while temporarily deprived of her husband's sane companionship, Linda feels the oncoming of those homicidal impulses which presage madness. On this tragic theme, 'Prelude to Christopher' is written with strong literary art as a narrative of four days of crisis. The story goes back in memory to the happiness of Linda's love for Nigel, and forward in her frightened imagination to a future from which the strongest must flinch. Christopher, the unborn child, dominates terrific events in which he has no living part to play. The prelude to his birth is told with emotional power.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon Blood on the Bearskin Ruby Woodford , Sydney : P. R. Stephensen , 1934 Z1499277 1934 single work novel detective

'Who killed Nettie Simble, the beautiful woman with the harsh voice who was found lying in a pool of blood on a bearskin rug in her flat in Elizabeth street, Sydney? Was it jealous lover, deserted wife, pleading sister or determined aunt of a man in the toils of her fatal beauty? Or was it some unknown stranger who had visited her in secret?'

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Advertisement, South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus, 21 September 1934.
1 y separately published work icon Eve's Affairs Elza Storey , Sydney : P. R. Stephensen , 1934 Z1437891 1934 single work novel E. Morris Miller's Australian Literature from its Foundations to 1935 (1940): 794 comments: 'Refers to city and country life in New South Wales, to Canberra and Dutch East Indies.'
1 y separately published work icon Makala Farm : a South African romance Ruby Pemberton Lemont , Sydney : P. R. Stephensen , 1934 Z1218987 1934 single work novel
1 10 y separately published work icon God in the Sand : An Australian Mystical Romance Theodore Price , Sydney : P. R. Stephensen , 1934 Z1184727 1934 single work novel fantasy Described by George Locke as an interesting and at times good eccentric fantasy concerning reincarnation, Atlantis, and a marginal lost race, God in the Sand's begins with a 1930s expedition into the heart of Australia by two prospectors. There they discover Luma, a young woman of Peruvian/English birth who claims to have survived the attack on Peru by 16th century Spanish conquistadors. Her magical, dream-like vision of the past also invites possibilities regarding the first Aboriginal migration to Australia.
1 5 y separately published work icon Mezzomorto Vivian Crockett , Sydney : P. R. Stephensen , 1934 Z114177 1934 single work novel A novel which narratively presents a series of short tales, these stories form part of 'a psychological experiment, conducted by an Austrian specialist in spiritualism. He constructs romances in which a dissatisfied and repressed Australian married man, nearing middle life, seeks relief from his longing for the world of his ancestors and from the depressing effects of his drab home-life on an Australian station. He is psychologically induced to play imaginatively the roles of the leading characters. Between the stories there are discussions on his emotional reactions. Throughout the work there are reflections on the enjoyment of romances, both real and imaginative, and on the relation between the illusions of experience and the actualities of life.' (Source: Miller, Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935, 1940)
1 1 y separately published work icon A Gentleman Never Tells J. J. Mulligan , Sydney : P. R. Stephensen , 1934 Z112665 1934 single work novel
1 2 y separately published work icon Threebrooks George Berrie , Sydney : P. R. Stephensen , 1934 Z111868 1934 single work novel
1 7 y separately published work icon C. J. Brennan : An Essay in Values Randolph Hughes , Sydney : P. R. Stephensen , 1934 Z444459 1934 single work criticism biography
1 3 y separately published work icon Sons O' Men G. B. Lancaster , London : Andrew Melrose , 1904 Z856023 1904 single work novel
1 2 y separately published work icon Teens Triumphant Louise Mack , Sydney : P. R. Stephensen , 1933 Z148064 1933 single work novel young adult Describes ongoing character 'Lennie's life in London, where she, too, is studying art. Her changing fortunes and spiritual life are detailed, until she decides to return to Australia' (Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature 411).
2 4 y separately published work icon The Bath : An Aquarelle Henry Handel Richardson , 1929 single work short story
— Appears in: Harper's Magazine , October no. 159 1929; (p. 559-560) The Best Short Stories of 1930. I. English 1930; (p. 218-221) The End of a Childhood and Other Stories 1934; (p. 112-116) Short Stories of Australia : The Lawson Tradition 1967; (p. 136-139) Best Australian Short Stories 1971; (p. 124-127) The End of a Childhood and Other Stories 1979; (p. 66-68)
1 11 y separately published work icon Old Blastus of Bandicoot : Opuscule on a Pioneer Tufted with Ragged Rhymes Miles Franklin , Sydney : P. R. Stephensen , 1930-1939 Z324622 1930-1939 single work novel
1 2 The Southern Classic Library P. R. Stephensen (publisher), 1904 series - publisher
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