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Introduction: 'The Australian essay is the product of that most potent force in the cultural development of Australia, the newspaper. The magazine and review have not flourished here.The struggle for existence has been too severe to allow the growth of a completely leisured class, and the partially leisured have developed a taste for reading, rather than a taste for distinction in literature. The story and the newspaper have been preferred to the novel and the review.'
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Melbourne University Press
,Oxford University Press
, 1935 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Garryowen : What it Means and Who He Is, single work essay (p. 1-6)
- Australian Federation (1860), single work essay (p. 7-11)
- Australia The Man Who Discovered Australia, single work essay (p. 12-23, 24-29)
- Buckley, single work biography (p. 30-44)
- Adam Lindsay Gordon, single work criticism (p. 45-49)
- Up a Northern River, single work prose satire (p. 50-54)
- On Reading The Best Books, single work essay (p. 66-71)
- A Word for Australia, single work essay (p. 81-86)
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The Old Bookshelf,
single work
autobiography
(p. 87-95)Fullerton fondly recalls favourite books of her childhood.
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Our Country,
single work
essay
(p. 100-104)Brereton complains that the natural beauty of Australia has been overlooked both by visitors and by many of his fellow Australians. In particular, he praises the beauty of the Australian eucalypt.
- On Doors, single work prose (p. 105-109)
- An Australian in London, single work prose (p. 110-115)
- Of Coral Islands and Claypans, single work essay (p. 113-119)
- An Australian in Florence, single work prose (p. 116-121)
- Pugilism in Antiquity, single work essay (p. 122-127)
- The Great War, single work essay (p. 134-138)
- National Poetry, single work essay (p. 135-138)
- The High Road of Australian Verse, single work essay (p. 139-147)
- Austral English, single work criticism (p. 148-152)
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