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Collected Essays of Walter Murdoch Containing Speaking Personally, Saturday Mornings, Moreover, The Wild Planet, Lucid Intervals
Sydney
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Angus and Robertson
,
1938
Z324404
1938
selected work
essay
Sydney
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Angus and Robertson
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1938
pg.
15-19
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On Rabbits, Morality, etc. : Selected Writings of Walter Murdoch
Imre Salusinszky
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Crawley
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UWA Publishing
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2011
Z1777213
2011
selected work
essay
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'"If the essay should come to displace the novel in popular favour, it would be a clear sign of an advance in civilization." - Walter Murdoch
Sir Walter Murdoch was Foundation Professor of English at The University of Western Australia. Throughout the twentieth century, he was also a bestselling author: in the weekly essays he contributed to The Argus and other newspapers and in the books that sold in their tens of thousands.
Irony was a key element in his approach, as was a lightness of touch in the treatment of his topics, from literature and social commentary to discourse on language. This selection by Imre Salusinszky restores this wonderful writer's work back into print for a new generation of readers.' (Publisher's blurb) Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2011 pg. 23-29
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