'A world-proof life'

• Tác giả: Marivic Wyndham
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 978-0-9802840-2-7
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 823.2 English fiction
• Thông tin xuất bản: Broadway : UTS ePRESS, 2007
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (386 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 175587
• Chủ đề: 1. 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; 2. Australasian & Pacific history; 3. Biography: literary; 4. Historical fiction; 5. Literature: history & criticism; 6. Social & cultural history

Tóm tắt

Eleanor Dark (1901-1985) is one of Australia's most celebrated writers of the inter-war years. Born with the twentieth century - a Federation baby - she published ten novels, amongst them one of the best loved Australian stories of all time, The Timeless Land. Her life spanned successive global crises - two world wars, the economic depression of the 1930s, the Cold War - each issuing its own challenges to the artist and the people's writer she thought herself to be. By far the most privileged writer of her generation, her ultimate challenge was a personal one: to unlock the gates of her world-proof life to a society and a world in crisis. The first cross-cultural biography of this famous Australian writer, Marivic Wyndham's rich and controversial portrait of Eleanor Dark is based on extensive research of the author's public and private lives.