The Tree of Man (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Patrick White

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9780140185843: The Tree of Man (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140185844 ISBN 13: 9780140185843

Publisher: Penguin, 1993

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The titles in the "Textplus" series, designed to reflect the changing nature of English Literature at advanced post-GCSE level, offer the complete text with a specially commissioned introduction and compact background notes placing the work in historical and critical context. Together, these components are intended to open up the text for students, allowing them to plot their own course of study, to plan extended projects, to compare writers' perspectives on similar themes and to relate works to key social and historical phenomena.

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Review:

"[This is] one of those magnificent novels given to us when a great writer is in perfect harmony with the mythic soul of humanity" (Carmen Callil Guardian)

"He is, in the finest sense, a world novelist" (Guardian)

"His greatest novel, The Tree of Man is a tragic pastoral about the penitential struggle with nature in a grim Australian Eden" (Peter Conrad Observer)

"The novel has unforgettable scenes, marvellous characters, wide ranges of mood, strikingly fresh imagery - all those ingredients which make a novel...become a permanent part of our memory" (Washington Post)

"A timeless work of art from which no essential element of life has been omitted" (New York Times Book Review)

Book Description:

An extraordinary story about a couple’s experience of moving into the remote Australian wilderness by Nobel Prize-winner Patrick White.

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