Author: William HayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
An Australian Rip Van Winkle
Author: William HayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction
Author: Ken GelderPublisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 9780522854220
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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.
The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Bulletin of Additions to the Libraries, Classified, Annotated and Indexed
Author: Glasgow (Scotland). Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Australian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1935
Author: Edmund Morris MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories
Author: Ken GelderPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Ghost stories
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
Australian Explorers by Sea, Land, and Air, 1788-1988
Author: Ian Francis McLarenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Australian Quarterly
Author: The A to Z of who is who in Australia's History
Author: Southerly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Vols. for 1939-1944 include the Annual report of the Australian English Association; v. for 1945-1946 include the Annual report of the Sydney Branch of the English Association