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Issue Details: First known date: 1958... 1958 Australian Accent
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Notes

  • Epigraph: The place, my lord, is much like Gideon's fleece The second time he laid it on the ground; For by the will of God it has remained Bone-dry itself, with water all around.

    Yet, as a wheel that's driven in the ruts, It has a wet rim where the people clot Like mud; and though they praise the inner spaces, When asked to go themselves, they'd rather not.

    The men are brave, contentious, ignorant; The women very much as one expects. For their religion, I must be excused, Having no stomach to observe their sects.

    You must be wary in your conversation; For, seeing them thumb-high, you might suppose They recognised their stature, but beware! Their notion of themselves is grandiose.

    Gulliver's report on Lilliput from James McAuley's The True Discovery of Australia

  • Author's Preface: This is not a travel book. There is nothing in it about the Dead Heart or the Outback, and little enough about the Bush, which Australians still love to praise as "the real Australia" though so few of them live there....It is a book about the sub-urban civilisation of the coastal fringe by a British migrant who lived there for five years and nearly settled there for ever. It is written in the belief that it is high time that Britain should take more seriously this young and vigorous nation to which she gave indifferent birth 170 years ago; and that Australians, who, like other people, dislike criticism intensely, are now mature enough to take it.

Contents

* Contents derived from the London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Chatto and Windus , 1958 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Kangaroo, John Douglas Pringle , single work criticism (p. 25-44)
Class and Society, John Douglas Pringle , single work essay (p. 96-112)
Poetry: The Counter-Revolution, John Douglas Pringle , single work criticism (p. 138-163)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Chatto and Windus ,
      1958 .
      Extent: 203, [1]p.p.
      Description: illus. (b & w)
      Reprinted: 1960 , 1961 , 1965
      Note/s:
      • Four impressions were published from September to December 1958.
      • Partial contents indexed. Remainder pending.
    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Rigby , 1978 .
      Extent: 203p.
      ISBN: 0727006282
      Series: Seal Books Rigby (publisher), series - publisher Seal Books is a paperback imprint of Rigby. The popular paperback series was initiated Vernon Branson 1968.

Works about this Work

Witty Cynics Take on Nation Stephen Wilks , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 7 December 2008; (p. 29)
The Jolly Swagman Bruce Moore , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: Ozwords , October vol. 16 no. 1 2007; (p. 6)
Untitled C. A. R. , 1960 single work review
— Appears in: Makar , August no. 4 1960; (p. 26-28)

— Review of Australian Accent John Douglas Pringle , 1958 selected work criticism essay
Australia : Myth Versus Reality Vincent Buckley , 1959 single work
— Appears in: Prospect , vol. 2 no. 2 1959; (p. 13,16-22)
The Life of the Legend Ian Turner , 1959 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 16 1959-1960; (p. 25-30)
Untitled C. A. R. , 1960 single work review
— Appears in: Makar , August no. 4 1960; (p. 26-28)

— Review of Australian Accent John Douglas Pringle , 1958 selected work criticism essay
Witty Cynics Take on Nation Stephen Wilks , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 7 December 2008; (p. 29)
The Life of the Legend Ian Turner , 1959 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 16 1959-1960; (p. 25-30)
Australia : Myth Versus Reality Vincent Buckley , 1959 single work
— Appears in: Prospect , vol. 2 no. 2 1959; (p. 13,16-22)
The Jolly Swagman Bruce Moore , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: Ozwords , October vol. 16 no. 1 2007; (p. 6)
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