Australian Love Stories: Selected by Kerryn Goldsworthy

Most Australian love stories confront or subvert the happy-ending stereotype or the tragic-lovers myth. Distance, hardship, and the particulars of history have all played a role in this transformation of gender roles and desire. Goldsworthy here draws together canonical authors, successive generations of urban sophisticates, and younger contemporary writers in this chronological anthology on romantic, sexual love. Beginning in 1873 and ending in 1996, this collection includes Marcus Clarke, Henry Lawson, Frank Dalby Davison, 'M. Barnard Eldershaw', Margaret Trist, Patrick White, Christina Stead, Peter Carey, Frank Moorhouse, Thea Astley, Helen Garner and more.