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Fantomina and other works (Broadview Literary Texts)
By Eliza Fowler Haywood, Margaret Case Croskery, Anna C Patchias. 2004
In the title story Fantomina, the protagonist disguises herself as four different women in her efforts to seduce the man…
she loves. Reflections on the Various Effects of Love is a didactic account of what can happen to a woman when she gives in to her passions. This piece demonstrates the sexual double standard that allow men to love freely without social consequence and women to be scandalized for doing the same.The wild sweet flowers: Alvie Skerritt stories (Uqp Fiction Ser.)
By Marian Eldridge. 1994
Alvie Skerritt - irrepressible, down-to-earth, sometimes fierce - is the centre of this boldly original collection of linked narratives. These…
stories present a modern family portrait full of compassion and humour.This year it will be different
By Maeve Binchy. 1995
Fifteen tales set in England, Ireland, and Australia telling how family members come to terms with Christmases that circumstances make…
"different". In the title story, a mother's listlessness leads to a change in the way her family observes the holiday.Bad dirt: Wyoming stories 2 (Wyoming Stories Ser. #Bk. 2)
By E. Annie Proulx. 2004
The stories are peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control in a kind of rural noir half-light.…
Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they will themselves through it, hardheaded and resourceful. In "What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?" rancher Gilbert Wolfscale, alienated from his sons, bewildered by his criminal ex-wife, gets shoved down his throat the fact that the old-style ranch life has gone. Several stories concern the eccentric denizens of Elk Tooth, a tiny hamlet where life revolves around three bars. Elk Toothers enter beard-growing contests, scrape together a living hauling hay, catch poachers in unorthodox ways. "Man Crawling out of Trees" is about urban newcomers from the east and their discovery, too late, that one of them has violated the deepest ethics of the place. These stories inhabit stunningly vivid worlds that are often isolated and dangerous, but most importantly, explore the compelling lives of rapidly disappearing rural Americans.The Pop Larkin chronicles
By H. E Bates. 1991
A wonderful collection of five stories featuring the Larkin family, with genial, generous Pop, devoted to his family - Ma…
and their six children, with a seventh on the way. In "The Darling buds of May" Pop meets a daggy inspector who is to become his future son-in-law. Contents: The Darling buds of May -- A Breath of French air -- When the green woods laugh -- Oh!To be in England -- A little of what you fancy.Only the animals
By Ceridwen Dovey. 2014
Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human...The souls of ten animals caught up in…
human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death. In a trench on the Western Front a cat recalls her owner Colette's theatrical antics in Paris. In Nazi Germany a dog seeks enlightenment. A Russian tortoise once owned by the Tolstoys drifts in space during the Cold War. In the siege of Sarajevo a bear starving to death tells a fairytale. And a dolphin sent to Iraq by the US Navy writes a letter to Sylvia Plath... An animal's-eye view of humans at our brutal, violent worst and our creative, imaginative best, it asks us to find out way back to empathy not only for animals, but for other people.The drover's wife
By Frank Moorhouse. 2017
Since Henry Lawson wrote his story 'The Drover’s Wife' in 1892, Australian writers, painters, performers and photographers have created a…
wonderful tradition of drover's wife works, stories and images. The Russell Drysdale painting from 1945 extended the mythology and it, too, has become an Australian icon. Other versions of the Lawson story have been written by Murray Bail, Barbara Jefferis, Mandy Sayer, David Ireland, Madeleine Watts and others, up to the present, including Leah Purcell's play and Ryan O’Neill’s graphic novel. In essays and commentary, Frank Moorhouse examines our ongoing fascination with this story and has collected some of the best pieces of writing on the subject. This remarkable, gorgeous book is, he writes, 'a monument to the drovers' wives'."Black juice
By Margo Lanagan. 2004
"Black Juice runs through us all" Margo Lanagan offers 10 short stories that aim to delight, shock, intrigue and amuse…
with their imaginative reach, their dark humour, their subtlety, their humanity and depth of feeling. Black Juice is a book of extraordinary stories breathtakingly fierce and surprisingly tender, they explore the dark and the light, and pit the frailty of humans against implacable forces.maar bidi: next generation black writing
By Linda Martin, Elfie Shiosaki. 2020
In this beautifully crafted, evocative and poignant anthology of prose and fiction, a diverse group of young black writers are…
encouraged to find strength in their voices and what is important to them. maar bidi is a journey into what it is to be young, a person of colour and a minority in divergent and conflicting worlds. All talk to what is meaningful to them, whilst connecting the old and the new, the ancient and the contemporary in a variety of ways. These young essayists, critics, novelists, poets, authors shake down words and works to find styles, forms and meanings that have influenced them and all their writings. These pieces are snapshots of peoples, places and perception.In the time of foxes
By Jo Lennan. 2020
'A fox could be a shape-shifter, a spirit being. It could appear in human form if this suited its purposes;…
it could come and go as it pleased, play tricks, lead men astray.' An escapee from the Family in Japan; an animal activist with something to hide; a cafe-owner in Sydney reconnecting with her estranged husband; even a journalist on Mars, face-to-face with his fate. The world has taught these men and women how to change shape, to be cunning - but have they also learned to be wise? In the Time of Foxes is both compellingly readable and deeply insightful about the times in which we live, each narrative a compressed novel. With an exhilarating span of people and places, it shows the short story collection at its most entertaining and rewarding.Rural dreams
By Margaret Hickey. 2020
Funny, heartbreaking and true; the characters in Rural Dreams are the people we know and grew up with. Some of…
them might even be us. A girl finds strength in poetry, a football coach ponders obsession, a woman grapples with the fall out of an affair and a mother can't and won't stop swearing. In 'Binky', the character asks, 'who gets the farm?' and in 'Rescue', a backpacker is pulled out of a crocodile swamp. Written through the lens of landscape, Rural Dreams highlights the richness of life on the land and showcases the beauty of lives lived outside city walls.Demon box
By Ken Kesey. 1986
Novelist Kesey's alter ego is part of the story of his life in the post psychedelic era: farming with his…
nuclear family in Oregon, visiting his former commune family and trips of all kinds occupy him as he eases his way into the reality of the 70s and 80s. Contains coarse language.All together now
By Monica McInerney. 2009
A group of friends on an unconventional diet learn some important life lessons, a fashion-challenged grandmother weaves some magic in…
a dusty charity shop, a grieving young mother takes a healing journey, and a shy woman from a family of high-achieves learns to follow her dreams. From one of Australia's most loved authors comes All Together Now, a collection of Monica McInerney's short fiction gathered between two covers for the first time. Exploring themes of family relationships, sibling rivalry, love lost and love found, the collection includes several of her earliest magazine short stories, contributions to recent anthologies, her popular novella, Odd One Out, and two new stories.Between two worlds: 30 powerful voices, SBS Ermerging Writers' Competition
By Behrouz Boochani, Tara June Winch, SBS Emerging Writers' Competition. 2022
Between Two Worlds brings us thirty of the best short stories chosen from the thousands of entries in the SBS…
Emerging Writers’ Competition. Offering a snapshot of contemporary Australia, this diverse collection of stories explores sense of place, family, loss, culture, sexual awakening and the abiding connections to people and place that make us who we are. Told with utterly fresh perspectives and a rich vein of literary talent, these stories are an invitation into the unique worlds of everyday Australians. Featuring stories by thirty emerging writers, each with a unique experience of our world.Here be leviathans
By Chris Flynn. 2022
A collection of funny, brilliant, boundary-pushing stories from the bestselling author of Mammoth.A grizzly bear goes on the run after…
eating a teenager. A hotel room participates in an unlikely conception. A genetically altered platypus colony puts on an art show. A sabretooth tiger falls for the new addition to his theme park. An airline seat laments its last useful day. A Shakespearean monkey test pilot launches into space. The stories in Here Be Leviathans take us from the storm drains under Las Vegas to the Alaskan wilderness; the rainforests of Queensland to the Chilean coastline.