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A Fringe Of Leaves by Patrick White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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
Eye of the Storm, The by Patrick White; Deidre Rubenstein (Read by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Audio
Elizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her '80s, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself to those around her. From this simple scenario Patrick White unfurls a monumental explor ...Show more
Happy Valley: Text Classics by Patrick White
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics | 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: Classics
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
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author. With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creating ...Show more
The Cockatoos: Text Classics by Patrick White; Gail Jones (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics
These six short novels and stories achieve the majesty and power of the best of Patrick White's great novels. They probe beneath the surface of events - a sexual lapse, the unaccustomed climate of a foreign country, interruptions in a cherished routine, a death, a toothache - to expose a deeper, truer r ...Show more
The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White; Deidre Rubenstein (Read by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Audio
Elizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her '80s, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself to those around her.From this simple scenario Patrick White unfurls a monumental explora ...Show more
The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A savage exploration of family relationships from the Nobel Prize-winning Patrick WhiteElizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships- her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itse ...Show more
The Hanging Garden by Humphrey Bower (Read by); Patrick White
$39.95 AUD
Category: Audio
Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl is the daughter of a Sydney woman and a Communist executed in a Greek prison. In wartime Australia, these two children form an extraordinary bo ...Show more
The Living and the Dead by Patrick White
$49.95 AUD
Category: Audio
Patrick White's second novel is set in 1930s London and portrays the complex ebb and flow of relationships within the Standish family. Mrs Standish, ageing but still beautiful, is drawn into secret liaisons, while her daughter Eden experiments openly and impulsively with left-wing politics and love affa ...Show more