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A Fringe Of Leaves by Patrick White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Set in Australia in the 1840s, A Fringe of Leaves combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner ...Show more
A Fringe of Leaves by Patrick White
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Returning to England in 1840, the "Bristol Maid" is shipwrecked on the Queensland Coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of Aborigines. In the course of her escape, she is torn by loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer, to her own and to her adoptive class.
Collected Plays Patrick White Vol2 by WHITE Patrick
$32.95 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Flaws in the Glass by Patrick White
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this remarkable self-portrait, Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but 'unable to produce him', he prefers t ...Show more
Flaws in the Glass by Patrick White
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The appearance of this self-portrait by Patrick White is a literary event for which his readers and admirers have long hoped. He explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognizes very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man who intervi ...Show more
Happy Valley - Text Classics by Patrick White
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Text Classics
Originally published in 1939, Happy Valley is set in a small country town in the Snowy Mountains. Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valley paints a portrait of a community in a desolate landscape. I ...Show more
Happy Valley: Text Classics by Patrick White
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Patrick White's magnificent debut novel - first published 1939, long out of print and now a Text Classic.Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valleypaints a portrait of a community in a desolate landsc ...Show more
Memoirs of Many in One: Text Classics by Patrick White; Sophie Cunningham (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The last Patrick White novel published in his lifetime,Memoirs of Many in Onepresents the eccentric, often fantastical recollections of the ageing actor, Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray. These are 'edited' by the writer Patrick White, her friend and executor, who is often the target of her scorn. Witty and ...Show more
Patrick White: Collected Plays: v.1 The Ham Funeral | The Season at Sarsaparilla | A Cheery Soul | Night on Bald Mountain by Patrick White
$34.95 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Australian Dramatists S.
Ham Funeral (6 men 4 women), Season at Sarsaparilla (9 men 7 women), A Cheery Soul (10 men 18 women), Night on Bald Mountain (5 men 4 women).
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
This title comes with an introduction by David Malouf. Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil ...Show more
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
$42.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed--and stricken--with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend th ...Show more
Season At Sarsaparilla by White Patrick
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Patrick White¿s classic 1965 drama The Season at Sarsaparilla is `a charade of suburbia¿¿a play of shadows, rather than substance. The neighbours that populate the play are held by their environment, waiting with determination, but little expectation, for the inevitable cycle of birth, copulation and de ...Show more