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An autobiographical novel, Maurice Guest is set in the musical culture of 1890s Leipzig, where Richardson was a student from 1889 to 1892. The international cast of music students perform, debate, love, drink and play in the musical shadows of J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Richard Strauss and Bizet.

(Paperback, Annotated edition)

Caroline Leakey, writing as Olin Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. In this new critical edition, editor Jenna Mead restores material that was cut when the novel was reissued in a radically abridged version in 1886.

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The Man from Snowy River and other Verses was published in 1895 and contains many of Paterson's most famous works, including the title poem which is regarded as one of the quintessential national narratives.

(Paperback)

The Moods of Ginger Mick is a collection of poems about Ginger Mick, the larrikin hero of Gallipoli. On its release it was described by the Bulletin as'finely patriotic' and 'uniquely Australian'.

(Paperback)

A timeless narrative of suspense and intrigue, Hume's book is the original Australian best-selling crime novel set in pre-Federation Melbourne. From the salons of the city's elite to the slums of Little Bourke St, the exquisitely plotted story follows the investigation, inquest and trial of the murder of a little-known English migrant.

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The Workingman's Paradise is set in the context of the defeat of the shearer's and maritime strikes of the early 1890's. The novel is essential reading for an appreciation of the context of the rise of the union movement in Australia.

(Paperback, First published in 1934 by Lothian Book Publishing Company)

John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942) is Australia's great lyric poet. A new introduction by Dr Helen Hewson explores some of the influences which have shaped Neilson's poetry.

(Paperback)

Oh Lucky Country (Paese Fortunato) uses first-person point of view to inflate migrant oppression to such absurdist proportions that its swirling narrative boils over into a maelstrom, washing away all migrant clichs. It is a witty, tragi-comic view of Australian society, culture and prejudice.

(Paperback, First published in 1902 by Duckworth and Co.)

Bush Studies (1902) is a collection of short stories which explore the dark side of the Australian bush experience: loneliness, isolation and danger. The stories, often depicting female suffering, are grimly realistic in contrast to the masculine romantic notions of the outback as represented by Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson.

(Paperback)

A collection of Lawson's most celebrated classic short stories. Includes four stories of Joe Wilson, a sheep shearer suffering from drinking problems and the hardships of the bush and along with the bleaker tales are more humorous takes on bush life including The Loaded Dog.

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ales of the Austral Tropics (1894) is a collection of short stories published in the Sydney Bulletin in the 1890s. Set in tropical northern Australia, Favenc brings to life the half-unknown and mysterious regions of this part of Australia at this time.

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Tales of the Early Days (1894) is a collection of historical tales primarily concerned with the social abuses of the convict system of early Australia. Warung's stories are filled with imaginative truth and 'symbolic veracity', though he draws on documentary fact and social realism.