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Donald Horne: Selected Writings by Donald Horne
Category: Non-Fiction
Donald Horne was one of Australia's leading thinkers for close to fifty years, and probably the best Australian non-fiction writer of his generation. His seminal book The Lucky Countrymade the case for a more open, modern, intelligent Australia. He was also famous for removing the words oAustralia for t ...Show more
Dying : A memoir by Donald Horne
Category: Biography
A unique book on a subject matter still largely taboo in our culture. An unflinching staring down of death, Dying consists of three very distinct parts, the first being the journal Donald Horne kept during the last eight months of his life. On learning that his illness was terminal, Donald Horne began d ...Show more
ON HOW I CAME TO WRITE THE LUCKY COUNTRY by Donald Horne
Category: Australiana | Series: MUP Masterworks Ser.
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The Education of Young Donald Trilogy: Including Confessions of a New Boy and Portrait of an Optimist by Donald Horne
Category: Australiana
A classic of Australian literature, The Education of Young Donald Trilogy combines Donald Horne’s three autobiographies — The Education of Young Donald (1967), Confessions of a New Boy (1985) and Portrait of an Optimist (1988) — in one volume. Describing his formative years as he strays far from home, i ...Show more
The Lucky Country by Donald Horne
Category: Classics
When it was first published in 1964, The Lucky Country caused a sensation. Horne took Australian society to task for its philistinism, provincialism and dependence. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past. The book s ...Show more
The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins by Donald Horne
Category: Australiana | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This often-oversimplified classic raises difficult questions about Australia's elites that are still worth asking. Are Australians, for example, still 'a largely non-contemplative people' who have "a limited view of the pos ...Show more
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