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Geoffrey Dutton (1922–1998)

Autor(a) de The Australian Collection: Australia's Greatest Books

90+ Works 613 Membros 10 Críticas

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Obras por Geoffrey Dutton

The literature of Australia (1964) 54 exemplares
Russell Drysdale (1964) 29 exemplares
The Hero as Murderer (1967) 22 exemplares
The squatters (1985) 17 exemplares
Country life in old Australia (1982) 15 exemplares
Republican Australia? (1977) 15 exemplares
Kenneth Slessor : a biography (1988) 12 exemplares
City life in old Australia (1984) 12 exemplares
Out in the Open: An Autobiography (1994) 11 exemplares
Australia's censorship crisis (1970) 11 exemplares
Walt Whitman (1961) 10 exemplares
Patrick White (1971) 9 exemplares
Sir Henry, Bjelke, Don baby and friends (1971) — Editor — 8 exemplares
Tamara (1970) 7 exemplares
Patterns of Australia (1980) 7 exemplares
S.T. Gill's Australia (1981) 7 exemplares
Andy (1968) 6 exemplares
New and selected poems (1993) 6 exemplares
Artists' portraits (1992) 5 exemplares
In search of Edward John Eyre (1982) 5 exemplares
Flying low : a novel (1992) 4 exemplares
Impressions of Singapore (1981) 4 exemplares
Prowler (1982) 3 exemplares
The wedge-tailed eagle: Stories (1980) 3 exemplares
Modern Australian Writing (1966) 2 exemplares
On My Island 2 exemplares
States of the Union 2 exemplares
Seal Bay (1966) 2 exemplares
The eye opener (1982) 2 exemplares
Book of Australian Islands (1986) 1 exemplar
The Beach 1 exemplar
Africa in Black and White (1956) 1 exemplar
Selective Affinities (1985) 1 exemplar
A body of words (1977) 1 exemplar
Paintings of S T Gill (1962) 1 exemplar
Antipodes in shoes 1 exemplar
Night fishing 1 exemplar
Tisi and the yabby 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Bratsk Station and Other New Poems (1966) — Tradutor, algumas edições107 exemplares

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Geoffrey Dutton was a legend. This is a beautiful collection of colour and black-and-white plates of the depiction of Aboriginal Australians by Europeans in art, ranging from the first settlers and French explorers, through Tom Roberts, Arthur Boyd, and propaganda cartoons, to works contemporary to the book's publication in the 1970s.
 
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therebelprince | Oct 24, 2023 |
A soft five stars. What a find - in a small country town at a charity book stall for a mere $5! Geoffrey Dutton's book is a journey through 100 great books of Australia's first 200 years under white rule, avoiding poetry, plays, and for the most part short stories - but including anything prose-based, including history and journals.

It's a delicate five stars because a) the book is inevitably dated after 35 years, and b) no-one is going to agree with all of the options. Unfortunately, those 35 years mean an awful lot when it comes to multicultural and gender representative literature. At the same time, Dutton was always of the "new school of thought" and he proactively notes that about a third of the books included deal directly with Australia's Indigenous population or their history.

Nevertheless, with those caveats aside, this is sublime. Each book is given a generous discussion as well as a short excerpt and a biography of the author. Dutton reaches back to the very first settlers, examining the more moral men and women who - unfortunately - were not always heard by those in power during our country's complicated past. He restricts himself to one book per author which, although it means some tough decisions with authors like Thea Astley and Patrick White, allows him to run through a wide spectrum. Importantly, this is a luxurious read, happy to delve into all sorts of areas of the public consciousness, and it reminds me how, even as someone with a university education in literature, my knowledge of my own country's literature is average at best. A worthy find.
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therebelprince | 1 outra crítica | Oct 24, 2023 |
Dutton & wife drove 100,000 miles through 45 countries in in 1950s this Vol. 3
 
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FawknerMotoring | Jul 17, 2021 |
 
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Obras
90
Also by
1
Membros
613
Popularidade
#41,002
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
10
ISBN
85
Línguas
2

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