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Aunts Up the Cross: Text Classics by Robin Dalton
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics
50 years after its original publication, Aunts Up The Cross remains a perennial classic of Australian childhood. Growing up in the 1930s in a grand old home in Sydney's bohemian Kings Cross, Robin Dalton experienced a childhood of curiosity and wonder. Raised by a bevy of idiosyncratic aunts and a revol ...Show more
Fear Drive My Feet: Text Classics by Peter Ryan
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics
Fear Drive My Feet is Peter Ryan's enduring account of his time patrolling isolated regions of New Guinea during World War II. Far from his fellow Australians and with Japanese forces closing in around him, the eighteen-year-old Ryan endures the hardships of the jungle, overcoming loneliness, fatigue an ...Show more
Songs of a Sentimental Bloke - Text Classics by Dennis C. J.
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Introduced by Jack Thompson The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, a comic verse novel, was first published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions within a year. By the mid-1970s nearly three hundred thousand copies had been sold internationally. One of the most famous ...Show more
The Dig Tree (Text Classics) by Sarah Murgatroyd
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. †̃Without some change,â€TM he wrote, †̃I see little chance for any of us.â€TM In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert Oâ€TMHara Burke led a ...Show more
The Even More Complete Book of Australian Verse: Text Classics by John Clarke
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Category: Poetry | Series: Text Classics
"For many years it was assumed that poetry came from England. Research now clearly demonstrates, however, that a great many of the world's most famous poets were actually Australians." Possibly the most important anthology ever published. The definitive collection featuring key works by such famous Aust ...Show more
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner: Text Classics by David Ireland
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
What was Puroil? At Clearwater it was a sprawling refinery, an army of white shirts, a fleet of wagons, a number of apparently separate companies, dozens of monolithic departments protected from each other by an armour of functional difference and jealousy. On the refinery site it was two hundred and fi ...Show more
The Watcher in the Garden by Joan Phipson
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: very good
Trespassing in Mr Lovett's secluded garden was a welcome escape for sixteen-year-old Catherine. A haven away from the parents who didn't understand her moodiness and from her pretty, even-tempered sister, Diana, who she resented. It was a place to be alone. But this all changes when Catherine is confron ...Show more
They Found a Cave: Text Classics by Nan Chauncy
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Four English orphans - Cherry, Nigel, Brick and Nippy - migrate to Tasmania, to the care of their Aunt Jandie on her farm outside Hobart. Their arrival is greeted with enthusiasm by young farm boy Tas, and weeks of exploration and good times follow before Aunt Jandie goes to hospital, leaving the childr ...Show more
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