manning clark life von matthews brian (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hardcover. Very good condition. Dust jacket is a little edge-worn and rubbed, with one or two minor scores. Hardcover spine ends are a little worn and bumped. Pages are clean, and the text and illustrations are clear. AF. Used.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 535 pages. Manning Clark was one of the most influential Australian intellectuals of the last half century. His political pronouncements were often highly provocative and his sweeping judgements, dire denunciations and oracular prophecies infuriated conservatives and made him a controversial figure. His most enduring legacy, however, was his magisterial six-volume History of Australia. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. pp.xxii+535. 23cm. 30 black and white photographic illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Hard cover in dust jacket.

xviii+536pp. Large 8vo. Original boards in pictorial dustwrapper. Black and white photographic plates. Gift inscription, otherwise a near fine copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Minor wear to book edges and corners. Back blank pages have been folded. Dust jacket is in good condition with wear to book corners and edges.Manning Clark was one of the most influential Australian intellectuals of the last half-century. His political pronouncements were often highly provocative and his sweeping judgements, dire denunciations and oracular prophecies infuriated conservatives and made him a controversial figure.His most enduring legacy, however, was his magisterial six-volumeHistory of Australia. In it he reshaped the now-familiar story of our nation's modern evolution; from the First Fleet's arrival, the convicts, the rum rebellion, gold, the sheep's back, Federation, and the glorious defeat at Gallipoli, up to the nation emerging from the Great Depression and on the threshold of a new world war. Within the dramatic narrative, which he envisaged as an epic, are highly original and insightful portraits of its great men with their tragic flaws: Phillip, Macquarie, Burke and Wills, Bligh, Wentworth, and above all Henry Lawson.Behind this ambitious work - with its more than a million words and twenty-five, long slogging years of research and scholarship - was a man as flawed as the historical figures he was presenting, figures in whose personalities and life events he often saw himself dauntingly mirrored. He was wracked with self-doubt, and dogged by fears of failure and personal weakness, he craved forgiveness for the betrayals that stalked and threatened his marriage to Dymphna, and wrestled with an elusive Christ in whom he longed to have a secure faith. Behind the signature broad hat and the stern unsmiling visage was a tortured man.That is the complex, enigmatic and thoroughly enthralling Clark who emerges in this remarkable biography by Brian Matthews, whose previous acclaimed memoir of Louise Lawson was judged to be both groundbreaking and revolutionary. Manning Clark: a life draws a compelling portrait of the great historian, who attracted both critics and acolytes alike in equal number. Both sides can expect to be astounded and captivated.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed; 6 X 1.9 X 9 inches; 450 pages.