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| | 1. |  | Voss (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $9.22
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This is the story of an explorer who is obsessed with making his own map of Australia. There was an historic role model for Voss, who disappeared without trace in the Outback, in the mid 19th century. The appearance of Halley's comet dates the time of the adventure to 1830 and before. Voss is a... more info
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| | 3. |  | The Vivisector (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $9.71
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This book comes with great peripherals. On the cover of the Penguin Classics edition is a superb painting by Jason Freeman, showing an operation on a human eye; as brilliant as it is horrifying, the image perfectly captures the mind of the protagonist, Australian painter Hurtle Duffield, whose laser... more info
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| | 4. |  | The Tree of Man
from Vintage
Price: $9.69
Customer Review:
A bit ponderous for me,very little humor.Like building a piece of furniture.This I think was a young White trying to fit into the literary scene of what was acceptable. A story about simple people living out there life.From marriage in rural suburban Australia to the eventual encroachment of the... more info
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| | 6. |  | The Living and the Dead
from Vintage
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Quite possibly the worst book I have ever read. The characters are annoying and bland and the writing itself is superfluous and confusing. I felt that I had to force myself to finish it and then was angry that I didnt put it down halfway through. This book has nothing to say and is annoyingly... more info
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| | 9. | [no image] | Patrick White: A Life
from Knopf
Price: $27.30
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I found the biog hard to put down, unlike White's fiction which I find easy to put down! Marr has written a scholarly yet entertaining biography, and you really feel you come to know something about an Australian icon - our only Nobel laureate in literature.In everything i have read (including... more info
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