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Australians are witty, ironic and humorous...much of their poetry ends with a grin; Their virtues are many, their verses are numerous - so we gathered them up and we put the best ion; Parodies, ballads and strange confrontations...snippets and couplets and good humored curses; Ludicrous antics, absurd situations - one hundred years of our best comic verses; Read them alone, or read them in tandem, read them outdooors in your sweater and scarf - read them in order or read them at random, but read them, dear reader, and have a good laugh! -
Escort Ship: J.E. MacDonnell
$30.00‘Enemy bridges in sight, Sir. Course unchanged. Definitely Takao-class.’ ‘Very good. Let me know…’ ‘Just a moment, sir!’ Still leaning sideways to the voice-pipe mouth, Bentley twisted his head around and up. All he could see was a pair of shoulders, a pair of binoculars held very steadily and an old white canvas hat. Then the hat bent sideways. ‘Enemy altering course towards, sir. They’re...I think...yes, they’re altering formation to line abreast.’ Wind Rode met a long swell and her foc’s’le lifted gently a further six feet. ‘I can see the bow waves now, sir. Almost level with the gunnels. I’d say about 30 knots. And I think they’ve sighted us, sir.’ ‘I think you’re right, Norton,’ Bentley answered dryly. He came upright and Randall reported: ‘Radar’s in contact, sir. Range 15 miles, bearing right astern.’ Bentley spoke two words: ‘Make smoke.’ Waiting, Ferris swung to his signal-lamp and the order for the first part of the battle plan, decided on by Bentley in the event of discovery by a superior enemy force, flashed back to the escorts. Randall stepped forward to the Edge of the bridge and pressed a large brass button... -
Casablanca: Michael Moorcock
$30.00A miscellany of articles, experiences, people, six new short stories and a long novella. In this volume: Short Stories: Casablanca; The Frozen Cardinal; Hanging The Fool; The Murderer’s Song; Mars; The Last Call. Non-Fiction: Scratching A Living; Mervyn Peake; Harlan Ellison; Angus Wilson; Andrea Dworkin; Maeve Gilmore; Taking The Life Out Of London; The Smell Of Old Vienna; Literally London; People Of The Book; London Lost And Found; Building The New Jerusalem. Pornography And Politics: Who’s Really Covering Up; What Feminism Has Done For Me; Caught Up In Reality; Anti-Personnel Capability; The Case Against Pornography. Fiction: Gold Diggers Of 1977 (Ten Claims That Won Our Hearts). Cover art by Diane Pfister. -
The Campbell family, on losing their estate, emigrate to Canada to start a new life. The family is united in their troubles and they pull together to make their farm a success and along the way dealing with the harsh weather, hostile natives, forest fires and other challenges and adventures. Written for young people in 1844 and suitable for all ages today. -
Now listen, mate! These essays, or whatever they may be, represent my thoughts and conclusions on various things and people. My eldest son wanted me to write my autobiography - "The story of your life, Pop" he said. "And tell the truth." He can go and jump in Lake Burley Griffin. I offer instead some comment on what life has taught me. After sixty years of knocking around and being knocked about, a man acquires a sort of philosophy. Basically, mine is that nothing in life is worth getting steamed up about, and most things are good only for a laugh. Illustrated by Benier. -
A comic play, written in 1902. Crichton is butler to the Earl of Loam, a gent who considers the class divisions in British society to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea parties, where servants mingle with his aristocratic guests, to the embarrassment of all. Crichton particularly disapproves. When Loam, his family and friends and Crichton and a maidservant are shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island, the resourceful Crichton is the only one of the party with any practical knowledge, and he assumes the role of leader – reluctantly. Can the Earl and the high-society members of the party go it alone on the deserted island, or will they accept the reversal of roles in order to survive ? The play deals with serious class issues that were controversial at the time. -
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden; A Little Princess) is a beloved children's novel that made a huge impact on the 19th century public, shaping everything from boys' clothing fashions to copyright law. Cedric Errol is a generous, kind, and exemplary middle-class American boy who is suddenly found to be the heir of the Earl of Dorincourt. Saying loving goodbyes to his working-class friends, Cedric goes to England together with his mother to embrace his new fortune. His grandfather, the old earl, is a bitter old man ridden with gout and a foul temper, trusting no one. However the angelic boy elicits a profound transformation in the grandfather, which not only benefits the castle household but the whole populace of the earldom. If only the old man's heart would soften toward Cedric's estranged mother, the family would be healed at last. And when another potential heir to the earldom makes a claim, it seems that everything is lost.... But all things are possible through a child's innocent trust, true friendship, and unconditional love. -
First published by Charles Dickens in 1855, Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn is the story of a traveller who finds himself snowed in for a week at the Holly-Tree Inn – so he entertains himself by recording the stories he hears from the other lodgers and staff. In this volume: Boots At The Holy Tree Inn; Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions: To Be Taken Immediately; Not To Be Taken At Bedtime; To Be Taken At The Dinner Table; Not To Be Taken For Granted; To Be Taken In Water; To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt; To Be Taken And Tried; To Be Taken For Life. The First Poor Traveller’s Story; Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgings: How Mrs Lirriper Carried On The Business; How The First Floor Went To Crowley Castle; How The Side-Room Was Attended By A Doctor; How The Second Floor Kept A Dog; How The Third Floor Knew The Potteries; How The Best Attic Was Under A Cloud; How The Parlours Added A Few Words. Mrs Lirriper’s Legacy: Mrs Lirriper Relates How She Went On And Went Over; A Past Lodger Relates A Wild Story Of A Doctor; Another Past Lodger Relates His Experience As A Poor Relation; Another Past Lodger Relates What Lot He Drew At Glumper House; Another Past Lodger Relates His Own Ghost Story; Another Past Lodger Relates Certain Passages To Her Husband; Mrs Lirriper Relates How Jemmy Topped Up. -
Devil Water: Anya Seton
$15.00Set during the Jacobite uprising of 1715. James, Earl of Derwentwater loses his life for his espousal of the cause; his brother Charles is the last Englishman to die for the Jacobites. Charles, a Catholic nobleman who joined the short-lived Jacobite rebellion of 1715, had a daughter, Jenny, by a secret marriage. Set in the Northumbrian wilds, teeming London, and colonial Virginia - where Jenny eventually settled on the estate of the famous William Byrd of Westover - Jenny’s story reveals one young woman’s loyalty, passion and courage as she struggles in a life divided between the Old World and the New. Anya Seton writes a well-researched, good story every time.
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