Love And Honour And Pity And Pride And Compassion And Sacrifice Penguin Specials

Author : Nam Le
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742535791

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Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice:Penguin Specials by Nam Le Pdf

A young Vietnamese-Australian named Nam, in his final year at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, is trying to find his voice on the page. When his father, a man with a painful past, comes to visit, Nam's writing and sense of self are both deeply changed. Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice is a deeply moving story of identity, family and the wellsprings of creativity, from Nam Le's multi-award-winning collection The Boat. 'A tight and densely emotional journey that sucked me in and contained as much power as the lengthy title.' Killings, the Kill Your Darlings blog

Author : Nam Le
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459621046

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The Boat by Nam Le Pdf

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world. The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an ageing New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing tow...

Author : Sonya Hartnett
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781742537092

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Life in Ten Houses: Penguin Special by Sonya Hartnett Pdf

Acclaimed author Sonya Hartnett is firmly Melburnian but has restlessly moved from suburb to suburb in her search for the 'Last House' – that special corner of the world in which to settle and find contentment. Viewing her life and work through the lens of real estate, she vividly recalls the places she has passed through on her way to finding home. Expanding on her 2010 Redmond Barry lecture, this short memoir is a beautifully atmospheric exploration of the idea of home and what it means to be a writer in a City of Literature.

Author : Bob Brown
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781742537085

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One Person, One Value: Penguin Special by Bob Brown Pdf

The former leader of the Australian Greens, Bob Brown has long been one of Australia's most influential and admired environmental thinkers. Here he outlines the importance of a global, humane approach to the issue of overpopulation. At once compassionate, intelligent and straightforward, this is a valuable and significant extract from Brown's memoir, Memo for a Saner World.

Author : Barbara Baynton
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781742537979

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Squeaker's Mate: Penguin Special by Barbara Baynton Pdf

Squeaker, a selector, is slowly clearing his piece of the Australian bush. However, lazy and shiftless, he leaves most of the work to his uncomplaining and hardworking mate. When she is crushed under a falling yellow gum, Squeaker responds only with selfish impatience. Taught to endlessly endure by her harsh surroundings, Squeaker's mate carries the burden of her injury quietly, with only her old dog for comfort. Published as part of Barbara Baynton's iconic collection Bush Studies in 1902, Squeaker's Mate is a visceral and lyrical story about the hostility faced by European settlers in the Australian bush during settlement. From an era when literature focused almost entirely on men and male experiences, Squeaker's Mate is an important depiction of the unique trials and strengths of women.

Author : Dorothy Hewett
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742537078

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The Darkling Sisters: Penguin Special by Dorothy Hewett Pdf

A big old Victorian terrace in Jersey Road, Woollahra, is thought to be haunted by the two Darkling sisters from the 1920s. When a young family moves in, dark images of these sisters, and of relationships closer to home, hang over them. Beautifully crafted and keenly observed, this story from Dorothy Hewett's acclaimed collection A Baker's Dozen is a stunning evocation of family, memories and neighbourhood.

Author : Ita Buttrose
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743481196

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Starting Out: Penguin Special by Ita Buttrose Pdf

In her extraordinary career, spanning over fifty years, Ita Buttrose has been involved in every aspect of the media, from newspapers and magazines to television and radio and now, electronic publishing. Starting as a copygirl on The Australian Women's Weekly, by the age of sixteen her journalism career was well underway when she was granted a cadetship on the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs. In Starting Out Ita describes discovering her love of journalism and publishing, how she overcame the challenge of being a woman in the workplace in the fifties and sixties, and the excitement of seeing her first byline in print. Starting Out is an engaging and insightful account of the early days of Ita Buttrose's career, depicting events that have shaped one of Australia's most prominent and distinguished women.

Author : Rhonda Hetzel
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781743485200

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The Simple Life: Penguin Special by Rhonda Hetzel Pdf

Rhonda Hetzel feels passionately that living simply leads to a richer, more fulfilling existence. Having made the decision to live frugally, embrace sustainability and opt out of the capitalist consumerist mindset, she set about working out how to achieve her goal, learning traditional skills, reducing her spending and environmental impact and focusing on the simple things that make life worth living: family, friends, and a home-cooked meal. This is the story of her journey and the lessons she has learned along the way. Rhonda relates why she wanted to change her lifestyle, what simple living means to her, and offers guidance to those thinking about taking the same path.

Author : Elizabeth Jolley
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742536743

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Adam's Bride: Penguin Special by Elizabeth Jolley Pdf

In a small Australian country town, a young woman is accused of the murders of her own daughter and the local rat catcher's wife. As she stands to face the charges in court, a stranger enters, determined to explain her crimes. This masterly story from Woman in a Lampshade perfectly displays Elizabeth Jolley's remarkable talent for character and story.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781425000868

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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.

Author : Anna Funder
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760143664

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The Girl with the Dogs by Anna Funder Pdf

'To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction – the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she decided against in her youth. What could she have made of her life had she chosen differently? And what will she risk to find out? Deceptively concise, The Girl with the Dogs is a masterful story about life from beginning to end, and about the brief moments of choice that have enduring consequences. Includes Anton Chekhov's masterpiece, 'The Lady with the Dog'.

Author : Shaun Micallef
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742536194

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A Selection of Smithereens: Penguin Special by Shaun Micallef Pdf

Feel that War and Peace went on a bit? Wish there were more laughs in Catcher in the Rye? Then A Selection of Smithereens is for you. These pieces from one of Australia's funniest men (no, not John Clarke) feature the Borgias, Winston Churchill and the history behind cornflakes – and so much more! Fresh from the updated 2011 edition of Smithereens, these six short essays are small, perfectly formed and easily digestible pieces of Shaun Micallef.

Author : Robert Drewe
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143180135

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The Bodysurfers by Robert Drewe Pdf

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach âe" and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family âe" The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.

Author : Jo Baker
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345813626

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Longbourn by Jo Baker Pdf

Now including the full text of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice! A brilliantly imagined, irresistible below-stairs answer to Pride and Prejudice: a story of the romance, intrigue and drama among the servants of the Bennet household, a triumphant tale of defying society's expectations, and an illuminating glimpse of working-class lives in Regency England. The servants at Longbourn estate--only glancingly mentioned in Jane Austen's classic--take centre stage in Jo Baker's lively, cunning new novel. Here are the Bennets as we have never known them: seen through the eyes of those scrubbing the floors, cooking the meals, emptying the chamber pots. Our heroine is Sarah, an orphaned housemaid beginning to chafe against the boundaries of her class. When the militia marches into town, a new footman arrives under mysterious circumstances, and Sarah finds herself the object of the attentions of an ambitious young former slave working at neighboring Netherfield Hall, the carefully choreographed world downstairs at Longbourn threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, up-ended. From the stern but soft-hearted housekeeper to the starry-eyed kitchen maid, these new characters come vividly to life in this already beloved world. Jo Baker shows us what Jane Austen wouldn't in a captivating, wonderfully evocative, moving work of fiction.

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJ88B

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Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke Pdf