Searching For The Secret River

Author : Kate Grenville
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459620011
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searching for the Secret River written by Kate Grenville and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Searching for the Secret River is the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life who later became a wealthy man and built his colonial mansion on the Hawkesbury. Increasingly obse...

Author : Kate Grenville
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459620038
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret River written by Kate Grenville and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a de...

Author : Kate Grenville
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0857861271
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret River and Searching for The Secret River written by Kate Grenville and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024* Kate Grenville's The Secret River was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, the story of William Thornhill and his journey from London to the other side of the world has moved and exhilarated hundreds of thousands of readers. Searching for the Secret River tells the story of how Grenville came to write this wonderful book. It is in itself an amazing story, beginning with Grenville's great-great-great grandfather. Grenville starts to investigate her ancestor, hoping to understand his life. She pursues him from Sydney to London and back, and slowly she begins to realise she must write about him. Searching for the Secret River maps this creative journey into fiction, and illuminates the importance of family in all our lives

Author : Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
Publisher : Insight Publications
ISBN 13 : 1921088842
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kate Grenville's The Secret River written by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg and published by Insight Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study guide on this book, written for senior secondary English students and VCE English students.

Author : Gay Lynch
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443826103
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History written by Gay Lynch and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History establishes that apocryphal stories, in all their transformations, contribute to collective memory. Common characteristics frame their analysis: irreducible and enduring elements, often embedded in archetypal drama; lack of historical verification; establishment in collective memory; revivals after periods of dormancy; subjection to political and economic manipulation; implicit speculation; and literary transformations. This book contextualises Unsettled, an Australian novel about a convict play, derived from the Irish apocryphal story of The Magistrate of Galway, and documents previously unpublished primary material, including apocryphal stories passed through generations of descendents of settlers, Martin and Maria Lynch, and The Hibernian Father, a play by Irish convict, Edward Geoghegan. It puts forward new hypotheses: that the Irish hero Cuchulain may have provided a template for the archetypal and apocryphal story of the Magistrate of Galway; that disgraced Trinity College medical student and aspiring writer, Edward Geoghegan, enacted and recounted the same father-son archetypal conflict when he was transported to Botany Bay in 1839, and wrote the The Hibernian Father based on the Magistrate of Galway; that working-class Irish families were marginalised in South-east South Australian historical records; that oral apocryphal Lynch stories may be true; that Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (2006) offers an alternative history of the Hawkesbury River settlement, by some definitions apocryphal. The mystery of Geoghegan’s disappearance is solved, and knowledge about his life increased. French theorist Gerard Genette’s notion, advanced in Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree (1997), of all novels being transtextual, provides a model for the analysis of relationships between these key apocryphal texts.

Author : Kate Grenville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841958293
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret River written by Kate Grenville and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sad book, beautifully written and, at times, almost unbearablewith the weight of loss"--Cover.

Author : K. Cooper
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137283386
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction written by K. Cooper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history.

Author : Sue Kossew
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042032863
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lighting Dark Places written by Sue Kossew and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Reading Feminism in Kate Grenville's Fiction /Susan Sheridan -- Kate Grenville as Public Intellectual /Brigid Rooney -- Author, Author!: The Two Faces of Kate Grenville /Elizabeth Mcmahon -- Madness and Power: Lilian's Story and the Decolonized Body /Bill Ashcroft -- “Africa and Australia” Revisited: Reading Kate Grenville's Joan Makes History /Kwaku Larbi Korang -- “Mobility is the Key”: Bodies, Boundaries, and Movement in Kate Grenville's Lilian's Story /Ruth Barcan -- Homeless and Foreign: The Heroines of Lilian's Story and Dreamhouse /Kate Livett -- “Impossible Speech” and the Burden of Translation: Lilian's Story from Page to Screen /Alice Healy -- Constructions of Nation and Gender in The Idea of Perfection /Sue Kossew -- Poison in the Flour: Kate Grenville's The Secret River /Eleanor Collins -- History, Fiction, and The Secret River /Sarah Pinto -- Learning From Each Other: Language, Authority and Authenticity in Kate Grenville's The Lieutenant /Lynette Russell -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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Author : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416911790
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret River written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during the Great Depression, a story about the difference between want and greed written by the author of The Yearling is newly imagined by the Caldecott-winning duo of Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears.