Patrick White is an Australian author widely regarded as one of the major English-language novelists of the 20th century. His fiction freely employs shifting narrative vantages and the stream of consciousness technique. His work is known for its epic and psychological narrative art, which introduced a new continent into literature. His unique style and depth in exploring the human psyche make him an unforgettable author.
A guide to generating, formulating and refining research questions, this book takes the reader through the processes involved in developing "researchable" questions. Common problems and mistakes are identified and the links between research questions and research design are discussed.
In this collection of short novels and stories, Patrick White explores the gulf - by turns funny and unbearably sad - between life's expectations and its realities. With immense understanding and compassion, he captures the longings that underlie the relationships of men and women, and the tender pathos of the heart's secrets.
Paperback edition of a novel by the Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, first published in 1976. It tells of an English woman who is captured by Aborigines after a voyage to Australia ends in shipwreck. In the experiences that follow, she discovers human savagery and her own sensuality. It has some basis in the true story of Eliza Fraser, who was shipwrecked off Queensland in 1836.
Penguin 'Twentieth Century Classics' edition of the autobiography of one of Australia's most controversial and respected authors, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Described as 'A singularly penetrating act of self-scrutiny, a cold, calculating stare into the mirror of the artist's life' (David Lodge, 'Sunday Times'). First published in 1981.
Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed—and stricken—with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend the machinations of their fellow men. Tender and lacerating, pure and profane, subtle and sweeping, Riders in the Chariot is one of the Nobel Prize winner's boldest books.
The story centers on Bill White, a Mountie known for his iconic red coat and dog-sledding skills, who has a reputation for always capturing criminals. However, the narrative delves deeper, revealing complexities in his character and the challenges he faces beyond his heroic facade. As readers explore his adventures, they discover the nuances of his persona and the realities of his profession, offering a fresh perspective on a seemingly straightforward hero.
Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.
An essential late novel from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series
Happy Valley is Patrick White's first novel, published in London in 1939 when White was twenty-seven. I must get away, thinks Dr Oliver Halliday, thinks Alys Browne, thinks Sidney Furlow.
First published in 1979, this is the second-last novel published by the only Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The sexually ambiguous Eddie Twyborn is encountered in three stages of his life - as Eudoxia, the lover of an elderly Greek man; as Eddie, a jackeroo in the Australian outback; and as Eadith, the madam of a high-class London brothel. This is a paperback reprint in the 'Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics' series.
