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Four reissued Australian novels

Delys Bird reviews Judah Waten, Jean Devanny, Vance Palmer and Louis Stone
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December 2002-January 2003, no. 247

Four reissued Australian novels

Delys Bird reviews Judah Waten, Jean Devanny, Vance Palmer and Louis Stone
by
December 2002-January 2003, no. 247

This is a particularly interesting group of reissued ‘classics’, spanning just over fifty years in twentieth-century Australian literature. Although they have very different fictional styles, all are realist or social realist novels, and their politics and preoccupations are not dissimilar. Each is concerned with working people’s lives, differing contrasts between city and country life, and aspects of class.

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