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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Australian Classics Library
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The Australian Classics Library series is intended 'to make classic texts of Australian literature more widely available for the secondary school and undergraduate university classroom, and to the general reader. The series is co-edited by Emeritus Professor Bruce Bennett of the University of New South Wales and Professor Robert Dixon, Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, in conjunction with SETIS, Sydney University Press, AustLit and the Copyright Agency Limited. Each text is accompanied by a fresh scholarly introduction and a basic editorial apparatus drawn from the resources of AustLit.'

Source: Sydney University Press website, http://www.sup.usyd.edu.au/
Sighted: 11/08/2009

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y separately published work icon Maurice Guest Henry Handel Richardson , London : Heinemann , 1908 Z821550 1908 single work novel (taught in 6 units)

'A passionate and controversial novel set in turn-of-the-century Europe

'Henry Handel Richardson’s debut, published in London in 1908, is set in the music scene of Leipzig, a cosmopolitan centre for the arts drawing students from around the world—among them Maurice Guest, a young Englishman, who falls helplessly in love with an Australian woman, Louise Dufrayer. Maurice Guest is the story of this overwhelming passion.

'The novel was deemed too controversial to be published as Richardson intended, and she was forced to cut twenty thousand words from the original manuscript and tone down its language.' (Publication summary)

 Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2008
y separately published work icon Joe Wilson and His Mates Henry Lawson , Edinburgh : William Blackwood , 1901 Z176014 1901 selected work short story Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2008
y separately published work icon The Workingman's Paradise : An Australian Labour Novel John Miller , 1892 single work novel (taught in 3 units)

An allegorical novel written in sympathy with the shearers involved in the 1891 Shearer's Strike.

 Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2009
y separately published work icon The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses A. B. Paterson , Sydney London : Angus and Robertson Young J. Pentland , 1895 Z122819 1895 selected work poetry Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2009
y separately published work icon The Commandant Jessica Anderson , London : Macmillan , 1975 Z796227 1975 single work novel historical fiction 'The Commandant (1975) evolves from the history of the early Moreton Bay penal settlement, now Brisbane. When prisoners escape from Moreton Bay to Sydney with their stories of harsh punishment, the fledgling press takes their side. Commandant Logan, convinced of the rectitude of his severe administration, is faced with an enemy he has never known before, but he ignores it. Logan is forced to face the reaction to his harsh discipline after the arrival of his young sister-in-law, Frances, who is unable to bear the brutality and whippings that are everyday life in Moreton Bay. The reader is left with the question, who is the prisoner: convict, or harsh commandant.' (Source: Sydney University Press) Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2009
y separately published work icon Paese Fortunato : Romanzo Rosa R. Cappiello , Milan : Feltrinelli , 1981 Z1081324 1981 single work novel (taught in 1 units) Depicting 'migrant life in Sydney...Rosa Cappiello follows the tormented lives of a random group of European women, from their incarceration in a hostel to their struggles in a series of derelict rooms and flats. They keep in touch with each other not through affection or genuine solidarity but purely through need, to escape their own desolation and solitude...This unusual and disconcerting view of migrant life does not aim to stand in judgment or reveal general truths on Australian conditions and society. It is instead a subjective account with a universal application, relating not just to Italian migrants in Australia but to all migrants everywhere. The characters are victims less of their new environment than of the circumstances which led them to seek change; ultimately they are the victims of their own natures and of the inevitable discrepancy between dream and reality.' (Source: dustjacket, Oh Lucky Country, 1984 edition) Oh Lucky Country Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2009
y separately published work icon A Difficult Young Man Martin Boyd , London : Cresset Press , 1955 Z500015 1955 single work novel (taught in 2 units)

' Handsome, proud, reprehensible, misunderstood. Dominic Langton is the dark heart of A Difficult Young Man. His brother Guy can scarcely understand where he fits into the pattern of things or what he might do next. Martin Boyd’s much loved novel is an elegant, witty and compelling family tale about the contradictions of growing up.' (Publication summary)

 Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2009
y separately published work icon Inland Gerald Murnane , Richmond : Heinemann , 1988 Z374812 1988 single work novel Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2009
y separately published work icon Bush Studies Barbara Baynton , London : Duckworth , 1902 Z820571 1902 selected work short story (taught in 12 units)

'Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism—for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness.

'Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Barbara Baynton’s short-story collection presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)

 Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2009
y separately published work icon The Moods of Ginger Mick C. J. Dennis , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1916 Z372216 1916 selected work poetry humour Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2009
y separately published work icon Tales of the Austral Tropics Ernest Favenc , London : Osgood, McIlvaine , 1894 Z1620911 1894 selected work short story Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2009
y separately published work icon Tales of the Early Days 'Price Warung' , 1892 selected work short story Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2009
y separately published work icon The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses A. B. Paterson , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1961 Z1472898 1961 selected work poetry Different compilation from 1895 selection of the same title. Comprises poems from several Paterson selections. Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2009
y separately published work icon Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson John Shaw Neilson , R. H. Croll (editor), Melbourne : Lothian , 1934 Z356344 1934 selected work poetry Sydney : University of Sydney , 2013
y separately published work icon The Broad Arrow : Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer Oline Keese , London : Richard Bentley , 1859 16674054 1859 single work novel

'Caroline Leakey, writing as Oliné Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middleclass woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful lover, Captain Norwell, and then wrongly convicted of infanticide. The novel’s title describes the arrow that was stamped onto government property, including the clothes worn by convicts — a symbol of shame and incarceration. With its ‘fallen woman’ protagonist, its gothic undertones and its exploration of the social and moral implications of the penal system, this little-known novel gives an insight into a significant chapter of Australian history from a uniquely female perspective.' (Publication summary)

 Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2019

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Works about this Work

Curating Oz Lit : Creating the Australian Classics Library Robert Dixon , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 316 2009; (p. 20-21) Robert Dixon argues the case for introducing 'new generations of readers' to classic works of Australian literature.
Curating Oz Lit : Creating the Australian Classics Library Robert Dixon , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 316 2009; (p. 20-21) Robert Dixon argues the case for introducing 'new generations of readers' to classic works of Australian literature.
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