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Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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Camouflage
Murray Bail
,
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
2000
Z668947
2000
selected work
short story
(taught in 1 units)
'The brilliant title story Camouflage tells the story of Eric Banerjee, an Adelaide piano-tuner sent north to defend Australia in 1942. Accompanying it is one of Bail’s masterly pieces of short fiction, The Seduction of My Sister, a weird and compelling account of sibling rivalry and love.' Source: Text Publishing. |
Australian Literature | James Cook University | 2016 (Semester 1) |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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The Drover's Wife
Murray Bail
,
1975
single work
short story
(taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Tabloid Story , 28 June no. 15 1975; (p. 36-38) Contemporary Portraits and Other Stories 1975; (p. 55-61) The National Times , 5-10 January 1976; (p. 27) The Most Beautiful Lies : A Collection of Stories by Five Major Contemporary Fiction Writers: Bail, Carey, Lurie, Moorhouse and Wilding 1977; (p. 5-10) The Tabloid Story Pocket Book 1978; (p. 258-267) Spectrum Three : Experimental Short Stories 1979; (p. 53-56) — Appears in: Crocevia : Scritture Straniere, Migranti e di Viaggio , Estate vol. 5/6 no. 2005; (p. 76-80) |
Introduction to Fiction: Postcolonial Short Fiction | Texas Christian University | 2012 |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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y
Eucalyptus : A Novel
Murray Bail
,
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
1998
Z279634
1998
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
Holland lived with his only daughter, Ellen, by a khaki river four hours west of Sydney. In spite of their remote location, tales of Ellen's beauty had traveled long distances and in the process inscribed a small legend. But Ellen's desirability was Holland's blindspot and finally he decided that the man who correctly named every eucalypt on his property would win the hand of his daughter. (Source: Trove) |
Australian Literature | James Cook University | 2012 (Semester 2) |
y
Eucalyptus : A Novel
Murray Bail
,
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
1998
Z279634
1998
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
Holland lived with his only daughter, Ellen, by a khaki river four hours west of Sydney. In spite of their remote location, tales of Ellen's beauty had traveled long distances and in the process inscribed a small legend. But Ellen's desirability was Holland's blindspot and finally he decided that the man who correctly named every eucalypt on his property would win the hand of his daughter. (Source: Trove) |
Wild Writing: The Australian Imaginary | University of Melbourne | 2010 (Semester 2) |
y
Eucalyptus : A Novel
Murray Bail
,
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
1998
Z279634
1998
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
Holland lived with his only daughter, Ellen, by a khaki river four hours west of Sydney. In spite of their remote location, tales of Ellen's beauty had traveled long distances and in the process inscribed a small legend. But Ellen's desirability was Holland's blindspot and finally he decided that the man who correctly named every eucalypt on his property would win the hand of his daughter. (Source: Trove) |
Australian Literature 1988 to Present | University of Sydney | 2010 (Semester 2) |
y
Eucalyptus : A Novel
Murray Bail
,
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
1998
Z279634
1998
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
Holland lived with his only daughter, Ellen, by a khaki river four hours west of Sydney. In spite of their remote location, tales of Ellen's beauty had traveled long distances and in the process inscribed a small legend. But Ellen's desirability was Holland's blindspot and finally he decided that the man who correctly named every eucalypt on his property would win the hand of his daughter. (Source: Trove) |
Australian Literature 1988 to Present | University of Sydney | 2008 (Semester 1, Summer Semester) |
y
Eucalyptus : A Novel
Murray Bail
,
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
1998
Z279634
1998
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
Holland lived with his only daughter, Ellen, by a khaki river four hours west of Sydney. In spite of their remote location, tales of Ellen's beauty had traveled long distances and in the process inscribed a small legend. But Ellen's desirability was Holland's blindspot and finally he decided that the man who correctly named every eucalypt on his property would win the hand of his daughter. (Source: Trove) |
Australian Literature 1988 to Present | University of Sydney | 2012 (Semester 2) |
y
Eucalyptus : A Novel
Murray Bail
,
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
1998
Z279634
1998
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
Holland lived with his only daughter, Ellen, by a khaki river four hours west of Sydney. In spite of their remote location, tales of Ellen's beauty had traveled long distances and in the process inscribed a small legend. But Ellen's desirability was Holland's blindspot and finally he decided that the man who correctly named every eucalypt on his property would win the hand of his daughter. (Source: Trove) |
Creative Writing B: Novel Ideas | University of the Sunshine Coast | 2010 (Semester 2) |
y
Eucalyptus : A Novel
Murray Bail
,
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
1998
Z279634
1998
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
Holland lived with his only daughter, Ellen, by a khaki river four hours west of Sydney. In spite of their remote location, tales of Ellen's beauty had traveled long distances and in the process inscribed a small legend. But Ellen's desirability was Holland's blindspot and finally he decided that the man who correctly named every eucalypt on his property would win the hand of his daughter. (Source: Trove) |
Creative Writing B: Novel Ideas | University of the Sunshine Coast | 2011 (Semester 2) |
y
Eucalyptus : A Novel
Murray Bail
,
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
1998
Z279634
1998
single work
novel
(taught in 8 units)
Holland lived with his only daughter, Ellen, by a khaki river four hours west of Sydney. In spite of their remote location, tales of Ellen's beauty had traveled long distances and in the process inscribed a small legend. But Ellen's desirability was Holland's blindspot and finally he decided that the man who correctly named every eucalypt on his property would win the hand of his daughter. (Source: Trove) |
Novel Ideas | University of the Sunshine Coast | 2016 (Semester 2) |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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y
The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories
Murray Bail
(editor),
London
:
Faber
,
1988
Z356335
1988
anthology
short story
humour
science fiction
(taught in 1 units)
'Collects representative short stories by Christina Stead, Peter Cowan, David Malouf, Peter Carey, and Kate Grenville' |
Australian Literature and Society (Contemporary) | Edith Cowan University | 2009 |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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y
Homesickness
Murray Bail
,
South Melbourne
:
Macmillan
,
1980
Z108653
1980
single work
novel
humour
(taught in 1 units)
'It could almost have been their own country: these sections with the gums briefly framed like a traditional oil painting by the slowly passing window. The colours were as brown and parched; that chaff-coloured grass, Ah, this dun-coloured realism. Any minute now the cry of the crow or a cockatoo; but no. 'Thirteen men and women travel the world on a package tour but wherever they go nothing is as it seems. 'Challenged by the unexpected, by differences and subtleties, Bail’s tourists are in turn repelled and attracted—and all are altered.' (Publication summary) |
Australian Literature and Society (Contemporary) | Edith Cowan University | 2009 |