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Notes
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'This booklet contains the complete writings, as far as are known to the editors, of a late 19th century Australian writer and social commentator who published under the name of Austin South' (Utopian Brisbane, and All Other Known Writings of Austin South, 2003).
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Bill Metcalf and Darryll Bellingham's 'Introduction' (pp.1-11) includes a section called "Who is Austin Smith?" (pp.10-11)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Brisbane,
Queensland,: 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- From a Far Countryi"What shall I say if he, some day returning", 'Austin South' (translator), single work poetry
- An Ode, to the Commonwealth of Australia, single work poetry
- At High Tide, single work short story
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The Land and the People : Two Chapters from an Unpublished Social Novel,
extract
novel
This is part of a larger utopian novel in which Maurice Fenton, of Brisbane is injured in 1891 and awakens in 1995. He finds that Brisbane has become the perfect city with an almost perfect population. This utopia has developed because people followed the 'Single Tax' and other teachings of Henry George. The complete work seems to have disappeared and was probably never published.(Description by William Metcalf)
- In Those Days - or, Life in the Twentieth Century, extract novel
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