Manning Clark's History Of Australia

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Publisher Place: Carlton
Publisher Year: 1997
Edition: Reprint

Description: 570 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. Abridged By Michael Cathcart. Abridged Edition.The Only Exception Is Some Light Tanning To Inside Pages.

Publishers Description: In 1962, the first volume of Manning Clarks "A History of Australia" appeared. For the next two-and-a-half decades Clark unfolded his tragic celebration of white Australian history. Today, the six-volume history is one of the masterpieces of Australian literature. It is also one of the most passionately debated visions of Australian history. Clarks Australians are men and women of lively goodwill and deep sinfulness, of generous idealism and unthinking brutality. He dramatizes the motivating forces of Australian life - cowardice and vision, cruelty and defiance, greatness of spirit and the spiritual vacuity of the suburbs - all of them locked in the unceasing struggle which builds a nation. Michael Cathcart has re-orchestrated Clarks epic narrative in this single volume. Every page of this abridgement rings with Manning Clarks voice. Here, at last, the general reader can encounter the deep resonances, pessimism and passion of Manning Clark - Australian historian and prophet. Michael Cathcart is co-author of "Mission to the South Seas: the Voyage of the Duff" and author of "Defending the National Tuckshop", a study of conservative responses to the Great Depression.

ISBN: 9780522845235