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Issue Details: First known date: 1955... 1955 The Tree of Man
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'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.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: To Manoly
  • An abridged version was published in New York by Books Abridged, inc. in 1955. It was accompanied by novels by Lionel Shapiro, Budd Schulberg, and Andrew Greer.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Viking ,
      1955 .
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      Extent: 499p.
      Reprinted: 1955 Five times. , 1974
      Note/s:
      • First published in August 1955. Reprinted five times in 1955.
    • Toronto, Ontario,
      c
      Canada,
      c
      Americas,
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      Macmillan ,
      1955 .
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      Extent: 499p.
      Note/s:
      • This edition published on the same day as the Viking edition.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Eyre and Spottiswoode ,
      1956 .
      Extent: 499p.
      Reprinted: 1956 Two times.
      Note/s:
      • Photolithographic printing of the Viking edition. Published on 27 April 1956.
    • Harmondsworth, Middlesex,
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      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Mitcham, Blackburn - Mitcham - Vermont area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin Books ,
      1961 .
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      Extent: 479p.
      Note/s:
      • Reprinted twenty times by 1994.
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1973 .
      Reprinted: 1963 , 1967 , 1965 , 1973 , 1972 , 1971 , 1970
      Note/s:
      • Printed in Australia.
      ISBN: 140016570
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Jonathan Cape ,
      1974 .
      Extent: 499p.
      Note/s:
      • Photolithographic printing of the Eyre and Spottiswoode edition.
      ISBN: 0224010085
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Avon Books ,
      1975 .
      Extent: 511p.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Vintage UK ,
      1994 .
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      Extent: 479p.
      ISBN: 9780099324515
    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vintage Australia , 2009 .
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      Extent: 479p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 3 August 2009
      ISBN: 9781741667707 (pbk.) :
      Series: y separately published work icon Australian Vintage Classics North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2008- Z1484482 2008 series - publisher
Alternative title: Zur Ruhe kam der Baum des Menschen nie : Roman
Language: German
    • Zurich,
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      Switzerland,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Buchklub Ex Libris ,
      1960 .
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      Extent: 512p.
      Edition info: Special ed., for bookclub members only
      Reprinted: 1960
    • Stuttgart,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Salzburg,
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      Austria,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Zurich,
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      Switzerland,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Europaeischer Buchklub ,
      1960 .
      Extent: 511p.
      Edition info: Special ed., for bookclub members only
      Description: Preface by Helmut M. Braem; illustrations by Willy Widmann.
    • Frankfurt am Main,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Vienna,
      c
      Austria,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Zurich,
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      Switzerland,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Büchergilde Gutenberg ,
      1963 .
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      Alternative title: Der Baum des Menschen
      Extent: 533p.

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Works about this Work

Greening White Graham Huggan , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 58 no. 1 2022; (p. 21-35)

'Patrick White’s support for green issues, especially in his later life, is well documented; however, relatively little attention has been paid to date to the planetary perspective of his fiction which, as Andrew McCann suggests, hints at “the possibility of a renewed relationship to the ‘earth’ ”. Focusing on what is generally considered to be his “greenest” novel, The Tree of Man, and adopting a broadly eco-materialist approach, this article assesses White’s work in the wake of the recent ecological and planetary turns. What difference does it make to position White, not as a national or an international writer, but as a planetary writer?And what if White’s work, usually looked at for the insights it provides into human subjects and subjectivities, were to be looked at instead in relation to what Jane Bennett calls “the material agency or effectivity of nonhuman or not-quite-human things”?' (Publication abstract)

Postmodernist and Literary Experiments : Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific Victoria Kuttainen , Greg Manning , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Oxford History of the Novel in English : The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950 2017; (p. 221-235)

'In the late 1980s, as the Canadian scholar Robert David Stacey remarks, 'talk of postmodernism was everywhere' (2010, xii). Yet postmodernism certainly took regional forms. Novelists in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific briefly and tentatively identified under the banner of the postmodern, while writers in Canada took up the cause and title of the postmodern more visibly and actively.'

Books That Changed Me : Kiera Lindsey Kiera Lindsey , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 1 May 2016; (p. 12)
Kiera Lindsey: Books That Changed Me 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 22 April 2016;
'Kiera Lindsey lecture in Australian history at the University of South Australian and won the inaugural Greg Dening memorial prize. ...'
form y separately published work icon The Book Club [28 June 2016] Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2016 15260427 2016 film/TV

Host Jennifer Byrne joins regular panelists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger, and guests Zoe Norton Lodge, Christos Tsiolkas, Geoff Cousins and Amelia Lester to discuss and review the book Lean In, The Road to Ruin, Submission and Australian novel, Tree of Life by Patrick White.

A Poet at Loose on Cow Cockies Geoffrey Hutton , 1956 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 12 May 1956; The Age , 19 July 2003; (p. 2)

— Review of The Tree of Man Patrick White , 1955 single work novel
[Review] The Tree of Man Erik De Mauny , 1956 single work review
— Appears in: The London Magazine , September vol. 3 no. 9 1956; (p. 64-65, 67, 69)

— Review of The Tree of Man Patrick White , 1955 single work novel
[Review] The Tree of Man [and] The Living and the Dead Charles Osborne , 1963 single work review
— Appears in: The London Magazine , February vol. 2 no. 11 1963; (p. 85-87)

— Review of The Tree of Man Patrick White , 1955 single work novel ; The Living and the Dead Patrick White , 1941 single work novel
On My Bedside Table Frank Sheehan , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 17 October 2009; (p. 20)

— Review of Fragments -- From Two Lives on Three Continents Christopher Wortham , Anne Wortham , 2009 single work autobiography ; The Tree of Man Patrick White , 1955 single work novel
An Australian Faulkner Max Harris , 1956 single work review
— Appears in: Voice , July-August vol. 5 no. 1956; (p. 29)

— Review of The Tree of Man Patrick White , 1955 single work novel
'The Bee in the Hive' : Women and Knowledge in Patrick White's The Tree of Man and A Fringe of Leaves Julie Mullaney , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Fringe of Papers : Offshore Perspectives on Australian History and Literature 1999; (p. 87-105)
Examines the construction of woman and the status of her knowledge within the pre-pastoral, pastoral, and anti-pastoral worlds evoked in the two novels by White.
Getting Away from It All Patrick Morgan , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 5 no. 1 1983; (p. 73-87)
White Power Russell Wenholz , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 24 August 2003; (p. 18)
Imagery and Structure in Patrick White's Novels Karin Hansson , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Breaking Circles 1991; (p. 175-181)
Mandala Symbolism in the Novels of Patrick White Shaik Samad , 1995-1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Commonwealth Review , vol. 7 no. 1 1995-1996; (p. 117-123)
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