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Issue Details: First known date: 1964... 1964 The Lucky Country
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Notes

  • Available as a sound recording and in braille.
  • Kinetica states that the same ISBN is used through different editions.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1964 .
      Extent: 258p.
      Edition info: 2nd ed.
      Reprinted: 1964 , 1967 , 1966 , 1965 , 1968
      Note/s:
      • Includes index.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1965 .
      Alternative title: The Lucky Country : Australia in the Sixties
      Extent: xviii, 238p.p.
      Edition info: 2nd rev. ed.
      Reprinted: 1966
      Note/s:
      • Includes index.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1968 .
      Alternative title: The Lucky Country : Australia in the Sixties Lucky Country : Australia Today
      Extent: xvii, 238p.p.
      Edition info: 2nd rev. ed.
      Note/s:
      • Includes index.
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1971 .
      Extent: 250p.
      Edition info: 3rd rev. ed.
      Note/s:
      • "The classic study of Australia in the sixties" --cover title.
      ISBN: 0140700129
    • Harmondsworth, Middlesex,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Penguin ,
      1971 .
      Alternative title: The Lucky Country : Australia in the Sixties
      Extent: 250p.
      Edition info: Fully rev. ed.
      Note/s:
      • Includes index.
      ISBN: 0140790129
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1971 .
      Extent: 250p.
      Edition info: 3rd ed.
      Note/s:
      • Includes index.
      ISBN: 0140700129
    • Harmondsworth, Middlesex,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Penguin ,
      1976 .
      Extent: 250p.
      Edition info: 3rd rev. ed.
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1980 .
      Edition info: 3rd rev. ed.
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1998 .
      Extent: xxix, 256p.p.
      Edition info: 5th ed.
      Note/s:
      • Includes index.
      ISBN: 0140271392 (pbk.)
    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2009 .
      Extent: 288p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 29 June 2009.
      ISBN: 9780143202813
      Series: y separately published work icon Popular Penguins Penguin (publisher), Camberwell : Penguin , 2008- Z1605341 2008 series - publisher novel essay short story
Alternative title: Igosi hojuda
Language: Korean
    • Seoul,
      c
      South Korea,
      c
      Korea, East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
      :
      Kyowoosa ,
      1989 .
      Extent: 214p.

Works about this Work

Can Poetry Be Happy? Gareth Morgan , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 September no. 110 2023;
y separately published work icon Donald Horne : A Life in the Lucky Country Ryan Cropp , Melbourne : La Trobe University Press , 2023 26054477 2023 single work biography

'The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation’s imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could change

'In the 1960s, Donald Horne offered Australians a compelling reinterpretation of the Menzies years as a period of social and political inertia and mediocrity. His book The Lucky Country was profoundly influential and, without doubt, one of the most significant shots ever fired in Australia’s endless culture war.

'Ryan Cropp’s landmark biography positions Horne as an antipodean Orwell, a lively, independent and distinct literary voice ‘searching for the temper of the people, accepting it, and moving on from there’. Through the eyes – and unforgettable words – of this preternaturally observant and articulate man, we see a recognisable modern Australia take shape.' (Publication summary)

Canberra Mark McKenna , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 80 no. 1 2021;

'On November 2018, the Icelandic composer and ‘multi-instrumentalist’ Ólafur Arnalds walked onstage at Canberra Theatre and offered his first impression of the city before a packed house. ‘As we landed in your elusive capital,’ he began, ‘I wondered if we’d arrived in the right place. It felt as if we were in the middle of nowhere.’ Clearly enjoying himself, Arnalds grinned, before declaiming with one arm raised: ‘It’s such a beautiful place but it doesn’t look like a capital city.’ The audience erupted in laughter.' (Introduction)

Culture Wars and Corporatism : The Cultural Mission in Australian Non-fiction Book Publishing, 1958–2018 Mark Davis , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , April vol. 35 no. 1 2020;

'In this article I investigate four phases in Australian non-fiction publishing between the late 1950s and early 2000s, focused on works of current affairs, politics and popular history. Many such books, I argue, were published as part of a ‘cultural mission’ in Australian non-fiction book publishing, where an imperative for reform motivated many publishers to publish books they believed to be of greater than commercial importance. The paper first defines ‘cultural mission’ publishing. I then argue that such publishing has played a crucial role in Australian culture wars and struggles over national identity since the late 1950s and that these struggles have played out in four overlapping phases that reflect shifts in national debate and the commercial imperatives of book publishing. These consist of, first, a ‘renaissance’ phase from the late 1950s until roughly the late 1960s; second, an ‘insurrectionist’ phase from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s; third, a ‘reaction’ phase from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, and fourth a ‘corporatist’ phase that gathered pace in the late 1990s.' (Introduction)

Burn, Lucky Country, Burn! Ross Gibson , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2020;
The Books That Made Us 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19-20 August 1995; (p. rev 1-2)

— Review of My Brother Jack : A Novel George Johnston , 1964 single work novel ; The Lucky Country Donald Horne , 1964 single work non-fiction ; Joe Wilson and His Mates Henry Lawson , 1901 selected work short story ; My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin , 1901 single work novel ; Monkey Grip Helen Garner , 1977 single work novel ; Voss : A Novel Patrick White , 1957 single work novel ; The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Henry Handel Richardson , 1917 single work novel
'The Lucky Country' Revisited Maurice Dunlevy , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 March 1998; (p. 27)

— Review of An Interrupted Life Donald Horne , 1998 single work autobiography ; The Lucky Country Donald Horne , 1964 single work non-fiction
When the Racket Had to Stop Peter Coleman , 1964 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 5 December vol. 86 no. 4424 1964; (p. 53)

— Review of The Lucky Country Donald Horne , 1964 single work non-fiction
Untitled T. M. Fitzgerald , 1965 single work review
— Appears in: Nation , 20 February 1965; (p. 22-23)

— Review of The Lucky Country Donald Horne , 1964 single work non-fiction
Lucky Country? Patrick Hutchings , 1965 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , May no. 1 1965; (p. 63-66)

— Review of The Lucky Country Donald Horne , 1964 single work non-fiction
We Should Be So Lucky Donald Horne , 2004 single work essay
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 August 2004; (p. 47)
Still Lucky, but Getting Smarter Donald Horne , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 28 August 2004; (p. 2)
Donald Horne wrote A Lucky Country 40 years ago. He revisits the impact it had when it was published in the 1960s and examines its influence today.
(Source: The Age (Review) 28 August 2004 p.2)
We're Here Because There's Beer Chris Middendorp , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 4 December 2004; (p. 8)
Australia's economy was once driven by alcohol and the social influence of drinking remains strong. The author discusses Australians' relationship with alcohol and how this has been portrayed in Australian literature.
Are We There Yet? Peter Hartcher , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10-11 September 2005; (p. 29)
Farewell, an Australian Original Peter Hartcher , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 10 September 2005; (p. 5)
In a series of telephone interviews with Peter Hartcher in March and April 2005, Donald Horne discussed Australia's progress on developing its own identity.
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