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Sydney Past and Present

Read by Phil Benson


John Arthur Barry


An account of the early history of Sydney, Australia's first colonial city. Best known for his collection of light-hearted yarns, Steve Brow…

The Song of Three Friends

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John Neihardt


The Song of Three Friends is one of five epic poems in Neihardt's, "Cycle of the West". In eight cantos it tells the tale of thre…

The Blue Review, Number 1

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Various


The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review wa…

Dr. Adriaan

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Louis Couperus


The fourth and final book in Louis Couperus' Books of the Small Souls quartet. Ten years have passed since the conclusion of The Twilight of…

War Impressions: Being a Record in Colour

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Mortimer Menpes


A personal account of the second Boer War by Australian expatriate artist Mortimer Menpes. Menpes travelled to South Africa as a corresponde…

John Bull's Vineyard: Australian Sketches

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Hubert de Castella and Hubert De Castella


An account of the origins of the wine industry in Victoria, Australia. Born in Neuchatel, Switzerland, Hubert de Castella was one of a numbe…

The Blue Review, Number 3

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Various


The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review wa…

The Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District

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Nikolai Leskov


In Mzinsk, a remote Russian town, adultery is Katerina's relief from boredom. Before long she has developed a passion for he lover, Sergei, …

Geraldine Jewsbury in Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, 1846-47

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Geraldine Jewsbury


'The most striking feature in the present day, far more than that of railways even, is the utter chaos into which all previously received pr…

Art in Australia, No. 1, 1916

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Various


In 1916, three prominent identities in the Sydney art world - Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and Charles Lloyd Jones - got together to pu…

Songs for the Millions, and other poems

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Benjamin Stott


Born in Manchester, and a bookbinder by trade, Benjamin Stott was an active trade unionist and member of the Chartist movement. Songs of the…

Venice

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Mortimer Menpes and Dorothy Menpes


Following his assignment to South Africa as Black and White Magazine's war artist, Mortimer Menpes travelled extensively, becoming the artis…

Art in Australia, No. 2, 1917

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Various


In 1916, three prominent identities in the Sydney art world - Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and Charles Lloyd Jones - got together to pu…

The Evergreen, A Northern Seasonal. Spring 1895

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William Sharp


The Evergreen was a short lived seasonal magazine, edited by William Sharp (Fiona Macleod) and published by Patrick Geddes, which proposed a…

The Blue Review, Number 2

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Various


The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review wa…

Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics

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Bliss Carman


The first of more than thirty books of poetry by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. "The poems in this volume have been collected with refere…

Little Johannes

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Frederik van Eeden and Frederik Van Eeden


In this allegory of childhood and youth, a series of increasingly sinister mentors - Windekind, Wistik, Pluizer and Dr. Cypher - guide the a…

Poems by Charles Harpur

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Charles Harpur


Charles Harpur was arguably the first major Australia-born poet, best known for Australia-themed poems such as 'The Kangaroo Hunt' and the '…

The Festive Wreath

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Various


The Festive Wreath, edited by John Bolton Rogerson, and subtitled 'A Collection of Contributions Read at a Literary Meeting Held in Manchest…

Notes Episode 1: Crescent Vignettes #1: the Vault

In Notes from the Vault

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Phil Rossi


A blizzard cripples an isolated stretch of US Highway where freezing to death would be a mercy. An antique broker holds the internet in the …

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