The Oxford Book Of Australian Letters
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Author |
: Brenda Niall |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015048573193 |
ISBN-13 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Australian Letters by : Brenda Niall
The editors have in effect provided an oblique personal history of the nation. Fittingly, this absorbing anthology ends with an exchange of e-mail messages. If the form of the letter is changing, these new modes of conversation offer a generation unused to letter-writing many of the delights and consolations so memorably found in The Oxford Book of Australian Letters.
Author |
: Voltaire |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 1741 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:N10705196 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Letters Concerning the English Nation by : Voltaire
Author |
: Jessica Brockmole |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2013-07-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781448164585 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1448164583 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Letters from Skye by : Jessica Brockmole
_______________________________________ A sweeping love story told through letters, spanning two continents and two world wars. For fans of My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You, The Postmistress and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. UNITED BY LETTERS. SEPARATED BY AN OCEAN. DEVASTATED BY WAR. A letter isn't always just a letter. Words on the page can drench the soul. Elspeth Dunn, a published poet living on the Isle of Skye, answers her first fan letter from Davey Graham, an impetuous young man in Illinois. Without having to worry about appearances or expectations, Elspeth and Davey confess their hopes, dreams and fears, things they've never told another soul. Even without meeting, they know one another. But as World War I engulfs Europe and Davey volunteers as an ambulance driver on the Western front, Elspeth can only wait on Skye, anxious for his return; wondering if they'll ever get a chance to meet.
Author |
: Rachel Henning |
Publisher |
: Puffin |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0140120475 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780140120479 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Letters of Rachel Henning by : Rachel Henning
In 1854 at the age of 28 Rachel Henning left the sheltered environment of her English home to settle in a new land - Australia. Pitchforked into the heat, the spartan conditions of the strange intense landscape, Rachel Henning, after an initial period of dislocation, took to her new life with amazing gusto. The long journeys on horseback, the nights spent under the stars, housekeeping in the outback - Rachel stuck to her resolve to 'make a go of it' and ended up loving her adopted country. The evocative and detailed letters she wrote to her family build a picture of both the routine and the remarkable events of a world far from the drawing-rooms of England. Through them we glimpse the rigour and excitement of women's lives in 19th-century Australia.
Author |
: J Mutter |
Publisher |
: Partridge Publishing Singapore |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2014-11-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781482828887 |
ISBN-13 |
: 148282888X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Book of Letters by : J Mutter
The English language is a fascinating subject and thanks to circumstances in history has possibly travelled the globe more than any other. The very basis of the written language is in the letters used to form words, and this book examines every aspect of the alphabet available for writing English, from the formation of letters to their use in words. Each and every letter of the alphabet used to write down the English language has a story to tell. Often we accept them without a second thought and even believe there are only twenty-six of them, whereas if we look more closely there are at least fifty-two as each of the capital letters has a lower case form. Sometimes they are just smaller versions of the larger, such as C and c, or X and x, but the majority of letters have a different form entirely like A and a, or D and d. They also have more than one sound associated with them, many have three, and the mighty letter R involves itself with around seventeen different sounds. No wonder the language takes some mastering! The Book of Letters looks at global English, which the Oxford Online Dictionary refers to as 'British and World English', and examines each letter in minute detail starting with the shape, to the inferred sounds. Fact-finders, teachers and students should all improve their knowledge from this detailed work.
Author |
: Pip Williams |
Publisher |
: Ballantine Books |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2021-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781984820730 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1984820737 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dictionary of Lost Words by : Pip Williams
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD
Author |
: Alan Lindsey McLeod |
Publisher |
: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1932705538 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781932705539 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis R.G. Howarth, Australian Man of Letters by : Alan Lindsey McLeod
An early admirer and critic of Howarth's poetry indicated that he had commenced writing verse at the age of seven. He had apparently continued in this avocation, for in his first year at Fort Street he was awarded the prize of one guinea, donated by the headmaster, for the best School song. There have been few Australian academics who have made notable contributions to more than one or two aspects of their discipline; Robert Guy Howarth was one of these. R G Howarth was first identified as a talented young poet by the distinguished Australian critic and teacher Dr George Mackaness, who studied the teaching of English at Fort Street (Sydney) High School early last century. While another student, A D Hope, also became an influential professor of English and a noted satirist, Howarth worked mainly in the love lyric, but also in the aphoristic, epigrammatic, and satiric modes of occasional verse. Hope's model was Alexander Pope, Howarth's was Lord Rochester; both were influenced by the Augustan aesthetic, and both influenced the direction of Australian poetry at mid-century. In addition to his verse, Howarth produced a significant body of literary criticism through numerous contributions to journals; through his long-term editing of Southerly and guiding of the English Association (Sydney Branch), he influenced both the direction of scholarship and the development of standards of criticism in Australia. In his seventeen years as Arderne Professor of English Literature in the University of Cape Town his influence on English studies in South Africa was commensurate with his influence in Sydney. Throughout his academic life Guy Howarth was an indefatigable correspondent, maintaining contact with writers, academics, and personal friends worldwide, as his archives in the library of the University of Texas show. In recognition of his contribution to the world of letters, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 86 |
Release |
: 1966 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106020226368 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Australian Letters by :
Author |
: James C. Docherty |
Publisher |
: Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages |
: 554 |
Release |
: 2010-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781461671756 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1461671752 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The A to Z of Australia by : James C. Docherty
The last continent to be claimed by Europeans, Australia began to be settled by the British in 1788 in the form of a jail for its convicts. While British culture has had the largest influence on the country and its presence can be seen everywhere, the British were not Australia's original populace. The first inhabitants of Australia, the Aborigines, are believed to have migrated from Southeast Asia into northern Australia as early as 60,000 years ago. This distinctive blend of vastly different cultures contributed to the ease with which Australia has become one of the world's most successful immigrant nations. The A to Z of Australia relates the history of this unique and beautiful land, which is home to an amazing range of flora and fauna, a climate that ranges from tropical forests to arid deserts, and the largest single collection of coral reefs and islands in the world. Through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets, author James Docherty provides a much needed single volume reference on Australia, from its most unpromising of beginnings as a British jail to the liberal, tolerant, democracy it is today.
Author |
: Kevin Hart |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105009801379 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Australian Religious Verse by : Kevin Hart
This wide-ranging anthology collects a wealth of Australian religious poetry. It reveals Australia's religious imagination to be both rich and strange, encompassing Aboriginal chants and Christian longings, Jewish midrashim and Taoist meditations. Unique to this volume, Hart includes moments of doubt and disbelief to show how atheism, too, can be a powerful religious phenomenon.