Bush studies / Barbara Baynton ; introduction by Helen Garner.
Bush studies / Barbara Baynton ; introduction by Helen Garner.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2012.
Date
2012.
Call Numbers
H 2013/2980
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xiv, 125 pages ; 20 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Dreamer --
Squeaker's mate --
Scrammy 'and --
Billy Skywonkie --
Bush church --
Chosen vessel.
Publication information
Publisher
Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2012.
Series
Place of Publication
Victoria
Date Published
2012.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Australian fiction
- Short stories
- Australian
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Summary
"No one ever wrote about the bush like Barbara Baynton. In the half-dozen stories in this book she conjures a nightmarish world for the women who live in it, a place of danger, lonliness and horror. Stark and searing, Bush studies is unforgettable, one of the most original books in Australian literature."--Back cover.
Barbara Baynton's short-story collection Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism, for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness. Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Baynton presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it....
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Full title
Bush studies / Barbara Baynton ; introduction by Helen Garner.
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Notes
General note
Text classics.
Original version note
Originally published London : Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1902.
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Call Numbers
H 2013/2980
Record Identifier
74VKdzJzqEdg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKdzJzqEdg
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ISBN
9781922079497 (pbk.) :
DDC
A823.2
MMS ID
991019928649702626
