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Notes

  • Dedication: To Brigadier-General S. Price-Weir, DSO, VD, First Commander 10th Battalion (S.A.) Australian Imperial Forces, the Gallipoli chapters of this book are particularly dedicated.
  • Epigraph: 'The superstitious man...takes a leaf of laurel in his mouth, and walks about with it all the day.' - From the Greek, circa 395 BC.

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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Faber ,
      1933 .
      Extent: 320p.

Works about this Work

Australian Prose Literature of the First World War : A Survey J. T. Laird , 1971 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 5 no. 2 1971; (p. 146-157)
The Novel : Novels of Purpose H. M. Green , 1961 single work criticism
— Appears in: A History of Australian Literature, Pure and Applied : A Critical Review of All Forms of Literature Produced in Australia from the First Books Published After the Arrival of the First Fleet Until 1950, with Short Accounts of Later Publications Up to 1960 1961; (p. 1122-1152)
Relapse into Old Ruts. Anzac - the Australians' Baptism of Blood - Writings by Anzacs. The Australian Novel goes into Recess. The Interim with "The Fortunes of Richard Mahony", "The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans". A Miscellany: Paul Wenz writing in French, D. H. Lawrence, Havelock Ellis. Miles Franklin , 1956 single work criticism
— Appears in: Laughter, Not for a Cage : Notes on Australian Writing, with Biographical Emphasis on the Struggles, Functions and Achievements of the Novel in Three-Half Centuries 1956; (p. 139-166)
A Reader's Notebook Nettie Palmer , 1933 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 10 June vol. 5 no. 6 1933; (p. 87)

— Review of Bring the Monkey : A Light Novel Miles Franklin , 1933 single work novel ; Quartette Leslie Meller , 1932 single work novel ; A Leaf of Laurel : A Novel Leslie Meller , 1933 single work novel ; Among the Reeds 'Jane Laker' , 1933 single work novel ; Pageant G. B. Lancaster , 1933 single work novel
A Reader's Notebook Nettie Palmer , 1933 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 10 June vol. 5 no. 6 1933; (p. 87)

— Review of Bring the Monkey : A Light Novel Miles Franklin , 1933 single work novel ; Quartette Leslie Meller , 1932 single work novel ; A Leaf of Laurel : A Novel Leslie Meller , 1933 single work novel ; Among the Reeds 'Jane Laker' , 1933 single work novel ; Pageant G. B. Lancaster , 1933 single work novel
The Novel : Novels of Purpose H. M. Green , 1961 single work criticism
— Appears in: A History of Australian Literature, Pure and Applied : A Critical Review of All Forms of Literature Produced in Australia from the First Books Published After the Arrival of the First Fleet Until 1950, with Short Accounts of Later Publications Up to 1960 1961; (p. 1122-1152)
Australian Prose Literature of the First World War : A Survey J. T. Laird , 1971 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 5 no. 2 1971; (p. 146-157)
Relapse into Old Ruts. Anzac - the Australians' Baptism of Blood - Writings by Anzacs. The Australian Novel goes into Recess. The Interim with "The Fortunes of Richard Mahony", "The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans". A Miscellany: Paul Wenz writing in French, D. H. Lawrence, Havelock Ellis. Miles Franklin , 1956 single work criticism
— Appears in: Laughter, Not for a Cage : Notes on Australian Writing, with Biographical Emphasis on the Struggles, Functions and Achievements of the Novel in Three-Half Centuries 1956; (p. 139-166)
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