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I have, on the whole, preferred seminal essays and expressions of representative points of view to close studies of particular writers and their works, few of which are worth preserving from earlier periods.  Some of the items I have included have an illustrative function – the correspondence of Stephens and Furphy, and the letters from Esson to Palmer, for instance, portray Australian writers at work in different periods – and in doing so, they make their own comment on the position of the creative writer in Australia.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morgan's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41060582817862,"sku":"","price":22.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2727\/7942\/files\/20240101_122539.jpg?v=1707008897"},{"product_id":"rorting-by-malcolm-brown","title":"Rorting by Malcolm Brown","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; 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mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eVolume III As I Please 1943-1945\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eEdited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; 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mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e“This collection of essays, reviews, articles and letters which Orwell wrote between the ages of seventeen and forty-six (when he died) is arranged in chronological order.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe four volumes provide at once a wonderfully intimate impression of, and a splendid monument to, one of the most honest and individual writers of this century – a man who forged a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud, who possessed and unerring gift for going straight to the point, and who elevated political writing to an art.\u003cbr\u003eThis third volume principally covers the months during the war when Orwell was employed as literary editor of Tribune.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe new freedom he experienced was expressed in the title and style of the regular feature he contributed – ‘As I Please’. Animal Farm was written during this period (and refused by three leading publishers).\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eIt also includes his brief period as a war correspondent after the Second Front.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morgan's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44710637600838,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2727\/7942\/files\/THeCollectedEssaysVol3_1.jpg?v=1772757419"},{"product_id":"the-collected-essays-journalism-and-letters-of-george-orwell-vol-ii","title":"The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell - Vol II","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eThe Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eVolume II My Country Right or Left 1940-1943\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eEdited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003ePenguin, 1982 \u003cbr\u003eISBN 0140031529\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eA little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, age toned pages (see photographs)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e“George Orwell requested in his will that no biography of him should be written.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThis collection of essays, reviews, articles and letters which he wrote between the ages of seventeen and forty-six (when he died) is arranged in chronological order.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe four volumes provide at once a wonderfully intimate impression of, and a splendid monument to, one of the most honest and individual writers of this century – a man who forged a unique literary manner form the process of thinking aloud, who possessed an unerring gift for going straight to the point, and who elevated political writing into an art.\u003cbr\u003eThe second volume principally covers the two years when George Orwell worked as a Talks Assistant (and later Producer) in the Indian section of the B.B.C. At the same time he was writing for Horizon, Tribune, the New Statesman and other periodicals.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eHis war time diaries are included here.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morgan's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44710641336390,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2727\/7942\/files\/TheCollectedEssaysVol2_1.jpg?v=1772757626"},{"product_id":"invisible-forms-by-kevin-jackson","title":"Invisible Forms by Kevin Jackson","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; 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mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eby Jay Parini\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eA Caravan Book, Yale University Press, 2008\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition\u003cbr\u003eDeckled edges\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780300124231\u003cbr\u003eHardcover, dustjacket\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; 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color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e“Drawing on a wide range of poets and writers and a forty-year habit of reading poetry daily, Parini turns to poetry for a respite form our clamorous culture.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eEver since Plato urged that they be kicked out of his ideal republic, poets have been on the run.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eParini looks at the traditional defences of poetry written over the centuries, from ancient times to the present.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eWearing his learning lightly, he wrestles with Plato, Horace, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Eliot, Frost, Stevens and beyond to such contemporaries as Adrienne Rich, Seamus Heaney, Charles Wright, and Mary Oliver.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; 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mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e“This many-sided book is built around the first nine lectures given by John Wain as Oxford Professor of Poetry.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eIn themselves, they are essential reading – tough, lively and varied – for anyone interested int eh state of literature today.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eBut they are not reprinted here baldly and out of context.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eSetting them in ‘a continuum of narrative and reflection’.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eJohn Wain brilliantly conveys ‘what the Oxford Chair is, what it feels like to take it on, what kind of situations and what kind of people the Professor tends to find himself amongst.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; 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topics ranging from Pinocchio to comics, from Borges to Che Guevara; and especially Lewis Carroll’s Alice books guide Manguel’s nuanced understanding to him as a boy, the Alice books remain his most steadfast and spirited literary companions.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morgan's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44861316497478,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2727\/7942\/files\/AReaderonReading_1.jpg?v=1775877931"},{"product_id":"nuff-sed-number-15","title":"Nuff Sed  Number 15","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; 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font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eby Elbert Hubbard II\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eWm. H. Wise \u0026amp; Co., 1927\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition \u003cbr\u003eBlack and white photographic endpapers\u003cbr\u003eHardcover, dustjacket\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e: Very Good\u003cbr\u003esome edge and shelf wear with some rubbing and bumping to corners and covers, age toned pages. Dustjacket fair with some rubbing, bumping, chipping and creasing, small tears, small parts missing (see photographs)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e“Scarcely had Elbert Hubbard’s Scrap Book appeared when the demand for a book of Hubbard’s own best work began to be heard – and when at length The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard was brought out it met with a most enthusiastic reception.\u003cbr\u003eThese two companion volumes have sold at a truly phenomenal rate ever since their publication, until today their total distribution exceeds three quarters of a million copies!\u003cbr\u003eThe Note Book is by Elbert Hubbard, Every word in it (except the introduction by his gifted wife) was written by him, and collected from carefully preserved memoranda by his son, Elbert Hubbard II.\u003cbr\u003eThe Scrap Book is what Elbert Hubbard read.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe Note Book he wrote!\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eOne contains his choice of other men’s thoughts, the other his own original thoughts.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe Scrap Book is not complete without the Note Book.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThey should be read together.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morgan's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45080794071110,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2727\/7942\/files\/TheNotebookofElbertHubbard_1.jpg?v=1779675080"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.morgansrarebooks.com\/collections\/writing-and-journalism.oembed?page=3","provider":"Morgan's Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}