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Never a Soul at Home

Author : Stuart Murray
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 10 : 0864733410
Pages : 296 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (733 users)

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The Book of Iris

Author : Derek Challis
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Release Date : 2002
ISBN 10 : 1869402677
Pages : 778 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (42 users)

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Download The Book of Iris PDF by Derek Challis Full Free and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant, beautiful, difficult and doomed, Iris Wilkinson (known as the writer Robin Hyde) led a short, tumultuous and incredibly productive life. Here her story is told for the first time in a dramatic and deeply moving narrative. Researched by both authors from 1965 to 1971, it was written in a first draft by Iris Wilkinson's friend Gloria Rawlinson; since Rawlinson's death in 1995 it has been revised and completed by Derek Challis, Wilkinson's son. It includes appalling accounts of hidden pregnancies, harsh experience as a solo mother, dependence on drugs, intimate acquaintance with sexism and poverty, mental breakdown, and a perilous trip to China in wartime. There are deep friendships and hurtful betrayals. Always there is dedicated and determined commitment to writing.

A Book in the Hand

Author : Penny Griffith
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Release Date : 2000
ISBN 10 : 1869402316
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (42 users)

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Download A Book in the Hand PDF by Penny Griffith Full Free and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we find ourselves in a technological revolution and the computer screen takes over the printed page, the history of the book has become a subject of study throughout the world. This collection of 15 essays looks at at a wide variety of topics from the history of the printed word in New Zealand.

The Years Condemn

Author : R. W. Stout
Publisher :
Release Date : 1977
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015027071524
Pages : 28 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (39 users)

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Disputed Ground

Author : Robin Hyde
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Release Date : 1991
ISBN 10 : 086473204X
Pages : 412 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (732 users)

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Download Disputed Ground PDF by Robin Hyde Full Free and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... This book brings together for the first time the best of Hyde's journalism. Alongside extracts from the now out of print Journalese (1934) are previously uncollected articles and reviews from newspapers and magazines, ranging in subject matter from the Treaty of Waitangi to the Spanish Civil War, from China in the thirties to the Queen Street Riots. These detailed and vivid accounts of aspects of New Zealand society and the international situation have an urgency with makes them relevant to us all.The biographical introduction offers a fuller picture than we have had of this remarkable writer, drawing on interviews, letters and the work itself." -- Back cover.

Edith Wharton

Author : Hermione Lee
Publisher : Vintage
Release Date : 2008-12-24
ISBN 10 : 9780307555854
Pages : 912 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (37 users)

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Download Edith Wharton PDF by Hermione Lee Full Free and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born into a wealthy family, Wharton left America as an adult and eventually chose to create a life in France. Her renowned novels and stories have become classics of American literature, but as Lee shows, Wharton's own life, filled with success and scandal, was as intriguing as those of her heroines. Bridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time.

Ninety Years at Torrens Park

Author : Peter Read
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9781862548893
Pages : 367 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (862 users)

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The Poets' Year

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-19
ISBN 10 : 9781107486744
Pages : 382 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (17 users)

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the poets' year an anthology

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Publisher : CUP Archive
Release Date :
ISBN 10 :
Pages : pages
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Mutiny On The Western Front

Author : Greg Raffin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-09-05
ISBN 10 : 9781925675665
Pages : 284 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (925 users)

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Download Mutiny On The Western Front PDF by Greg Raffin Full Free and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 21 September 1918, with retreating German forces on their last legs, the 1st Battalion of the AIF was ordered to return to the front just as they were being relieved and preparing for a well-earnt rest. It wasn’t just the Germans who were on their last legs; the Australians were depleted and exhausted. In what was the largest such instance of mass ‘combat refusal’ in the AIF’s history, the men of one company in the 1st Battalion defied the order. The ‘mutiny’ spread to other companies, and when the battalion did eventually comply with the order, over 100 men were absent. The circumstances surrounding this mutiny have long been a matter of embarrassment for the AIF, and of fascination for military historians. While historians have approached the issue in purely military terms – the men as soldiers, over-extended service, rates of wounding, promotions, and so on – this book approaches these 100 plus men as human beings. Mutiny on the Western Front traces how these events played out in the context of the exhausting demands placed upon a unit that had seen practically continuous front-line action for weeks, if not months, in the war’s final, decisive stages. Author Greg Raffin considers what happens to men’s hearts and minds in the course of a prolonged conflict like the Great War. This story, which will surprise readers – is not just about a group of exhausted and war weary Australian soldiers in 1918, it is a story about humanity in war: about what men do in war, and what war does to men.

Picking Up the Traces

Author : Lawrence Jones
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : 0864734557
Pages : 520 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (734 users)

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Download Picking Up the Traces PDF by Lawrence Jones Full Free and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the generation of New Zealand writers who came of age in the 1930s and who deliberately and decisively changed the course of literature is told in this book, shedding important new light on the key participants, including Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, and Robin Hyde. The movement is traced through small circulation magazines and small press publications from 1932 to 1941. The repudiations and loyalties by which the movement defined itself are explored, including its opposition to the literary establishment and to late Georgian verse, its naming of its precursors and allies from the 1920s, and its choice of overseas models such as the British Moderns and the new American short-story writers for the creation of a new literature. oppose the cultural myths supported by the literary establishment and the writers' responses to the world-wide social upheavals of the period -- the Depression, the international crises of 1935 to 1939, and World War II.

Leaving the Highway

Author : Mark Williams
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01
ISBN 10 : 9781869406387
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (869 users)

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East by South

Author : Charles Ferrall
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 0864734913
Pages : 439 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (734 users)

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Download East by South PDF by Charles Ferrall Full Free and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when China is being seen as the next superpower, both sweatshop and powerhouse for the global economy, political courtship on the part of interested governments is accompanied by grassroots hostility. Such ambivalence is not new.

The Celtic Wheel of the Year

Author : Tess Ward
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2007-07-23
ISBN 10 : 9781803411385
Pages : 285 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (83 users)

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Finishing Well

Author : IAN KNOX
Publisher : SPCK
Release Date : 2020-06-18
ISBN 10 : 9780281083503
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (281 users)

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Download Finishing Well PDF by IAN KNOX Full Free and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘God’s purpose for us is to show, as we get older, that he gives us his strength and, through our experiences of him, his wisdom,’ says Ian Knox. ‘God is not finished with us. In our later years we are not only to be blessed, but to be a blessing and bring a blessing.’ As we get older, some of us grow more frenetic in our anxiety to demonstrate that the force is still with us. Others withdraw, often quite abruptly. What is God’s view of ageing? The Bible has much to say, and many stories to tell, about those who did great things, those who did ordinary things well, those who prayed, those who used their gifts, those who suffered, those who went right to the end – and those who, in later years, got it absolutely wrong. How are we going to face the prospect of ageing? Will we subside, give up? Or shall we view retirement as a gift from God, an opportunity to reach out to others? Our older years are full of possibilities, not least of which is that of helping others find Christ.

The Penguin Book of First World War Stories

Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2007-10-25
ISBN 10 : 9780141916491
Pages : 432 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (141 users)

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Narratives of Nostalgia, Gender and Nationalism

Author : Suzanne Kehde
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 1996-12-20
ISBN 10 : 9781349135981
Pages : 214 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (349 users)

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Download Narratives of Nostalgia, Gender and Nationalism PDF by Suzanne Kehde Full Free and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-12-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using texts ranging from the writings of Schlegel to the speeches of the fiftieth-anniversary commemoration of D-Day, these essays explore the ways in which nostalgia brokers the relations between the master narratives of gender and the master narratives of nationalism. Although such narratives seem to present nation as an unchanging essence, these essays all deal with texts that on analysis show nationalism in an evolving response to developments, both political and cultural, that destabilize the idea of nation.