The Tree of Man (Penguin Classics)

Patrick White

ISBN 10: 0140185844 / ISBN 13: 9780140185843

Published by Penguin Classics, 1993

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0140185844I3N00

Synopsis:

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.

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)

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Tree of Man (Penguin Classics)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket