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Author : William Hay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Australia
ISBN : NYPL:33433107878922
Author : William Hay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1330572769
Excerpt from An Australian Rip Van Winkle: And Other Pieces; Being a Sketch-Book After the Style of Washington Irving In some states of Australia - especially in the South - there are those curious survivals to be seen as you thread the wild ranges in motor or coach - the roads that lead nowhere. Many will recognize the phenomenon indicated. There used to be scores of them threading the hills and flats that rise immediately over Encounter Bay. And it is the same to-day; as you flash along the fine valley causeways, you see winding up into the uninhabited bush-land on either side, these tracks of white sand, just wide enough to take a vehicle, and choosing one, you can sometimes trace it with the eye before you are away - ribboning for miles over the silent piney ranges. Of course those neat little roads leading so persistently where by all human conjecture there is nothing and never was anything, of permanent consequence (appearing so startlingly in the boundless scrub like a path in an enchanted shrubbery) have quite a steady romantic interest for youth, and a certain family of children which this story concerned, who sometimes took their pleasure on these high flats over the sea, would often turn their cobby little horses into some specially inviting road to nowhere only to find it breaking off into lesser new ones, or threading unalteringly into the unknown, beyond their courage or the daylight. The charm of these roads may be painted in a paragraph. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William Hay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436511186
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0522854222
Grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate an unforgiving landscape that is the stuff of nightmares. These compelling stories are the dark underside to the usual story of colonial progress, promise and nation-building, and reveal the gothic imagination that lies at the heart of Australian fiction. This anthology collects the best examples of colonial Australian gothic short stories by authors such as Marcus Clarke, Hume Nisbet, Henry Lawson and Katherine Susannah Prichard, among others.
Author : William Hay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Australia
ISBN : SRLF:A0001391267
Author : Edmund Morris Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Australia
ISBN : UOM:39015052556563
Author : Ken Gelder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018405055
Three phantoms wander the desert; a ghostly lover claims his bride at an outback station; a dead man appears beside a blood-red waterhole; a jackaroo witnesses a ghostly struggle; a frightful monster haunts the Nullarbor Plain. This anthology of Australian ghost stories - from the 1850s to the present - draws together a neglected but striking genre of fiction that works to remind those who recently settled this country how unsettled it actually is. New arrivals stumble across empty houses with ghostly occupants; lonely bushmen fantasise about ghostly women; Aborigines tell of bunyips, bugeens and 'living ghosts'; the bush is full of beckoning spectral images; and Death himself is seen prowling the streets. In these stories Australia becomes the 'down-underworld', a place where the departed will inevitably be resurrected in time, and where the dead continue to make their presence felt.
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082911671
Author : William Henry Wilde,Joy W. Hooton,B. G. Andrews
Publisher : Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015066380307
A comprehensive account of Australian literature from the first settlement in 1788 to the current day, this book represents the most important achievements in Australian poetry, drama, and fiction as well as non-fictional prose--journals, diaries, biographies, and autobiographies--and details the impact on the writing caused by those historical events that often serve as a work's theme. More than 3,000 informative entries cover subjects such as transportation, exploration, gold discoveries, bushranging, and outback ethos, all of which played a part in the development of the continent's literature as did the pervasive presence and influence of the Aboriginal culture. Entries range from lengthy articles on special topics to brief factual paragraphs explaining words or references. Also provided is information and reference sources on important past and contemporary writers as well as anything and everything that may have influenced their development: the growth of publishing and periodicals; the impact of movements such as nationalism, racialism, and feminism; and the contributions made by booksellers, critics, and literary associations. A major new Oxford Companion, this book makes an intriguing new genre of literature accessible to all readers.
Author : Ian Francis McLaren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005125690
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Australia
ISBN : IND:30000132716485
Author : Frederick Thomas Macartney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCAL:$B112977
Author : Fayette Gosse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Authors, Australian
ISBN : UCAL:B3477367
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Australia
ISBN : UOM:39015068892325
Author : Libraries Board of South Australia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B566940
