An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger
$29.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule, according to the author, is that all the information must be verifiable. With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger ...Show more
Jungle,the by Upton Sinclair
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounce ...Show more
Other Colours by Orhan Pamuk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
"Other Colours" is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art ...Show more
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
'On my desk sits a beautiful engraving, published in another century, that promises me: "Out of the chaos the future emerges in harmony and beauty." Promises and prayers contain their own kinds of answer, as consecrated aspiration. I need this one now...' In her new essay collection, written in the afte ...Show more
Mup Anthology Of Australian Colonial Gothic Fiction by Kenneth Gelder
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Collects some of the best examples of Australian gothic short stories from colonial times. Demonic bird cries, grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate a colonial landscape which is the stuff of nightmare.
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A beautiful collection of fragments about time and space 'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless In our brief mortal lives, we are grinde ...Show more
Tolerance, Prejudice and Fear: Sydney Pen Voices The 3 Writers project by Christos Tsiolkas, Gideon Haigh, Alexis Wright
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Three acclaimed writers explore the crucial issues facing contemporary Australia: fear, prejudice and tolerance.
Essays by George Orwell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92 by Alan Kohler
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia by Sarah Krasnostein
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
How can we mend Australia's broken mental health system? Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic is making things worse, especially in schools. Our mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose. What is to be done? In this brilli ...Show more