The Oxford Literary Guide To Australia

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 1987
Edition: First Edition

Description: 344 pages. Ex-Library. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. For The First Time There Is A Literary Guide To Australia; A Comprehensive And Evocative Account Of The Places That Were Celebrated By Australia's Writers And Where They Lived, Worked, Married, Drank,are Buried. More Than 930 Places Are To Be Found In This Book.

Publishers Description: This first literary guide to Australia provides comprehensive and evocative coverage of more than 930 places which have been celebrated by Australian writers: the places in which they worked, married, drank, and were buried. Among them are imagined locations, such as the 'Never-Never', and the Outback, together with cities, suburbs, the Monaro, the Mallee, the Kimberleys, and the Gulf country. The book focuses on Australian writers both living and dead, including writers of popular fiction, memoirs, essays, diaries, poetry, drama, and children's books. The text is accompanied by 25 black and white illustrations, sixteen pages of colour photographs, and a selection of maps to aid the literary traveller. Readership: students and teachers of Australian or Commonwealth literature and history.

ISBN: 0195545923