Dunlevy names 1966 best Australian and overseas books
The author reviews 1966 literature, praising A D Hope Collected Poems and Patrick White The Solid Mand and Christina Stead Sew Poor Men of Sydney, The Man Who Loved Children, and The Salzburg Tales. Overseas bios by Mary Moorman and Frederick A Pottle, plus Nabokov translations, are highlighted, with a note on a banned Vizinczey title to read in 1967.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D. Hope
Hope
Patrick White
Mr White
Christina Stead
Sydney
Judith Wright
Craig McGregor
Australia
Robert Goodman
George Johnston
Goodman
A. G. L. Shaw
Robson
Joj Fon
Enid Campbell
Harry Whitmore
Jal Porter
Mary Moorman
Wordsworth
James Boywell
Frederick A. Pottle
Boswell
Disraeli
Robert Blake
Mr Blake
Kingsley Amis
Ant Death League
Gabriel Fielding
Vladimir Nabokov
Stephen Vizinczey
Douglass Baglin
Germany revived and postwar Germany summaries
Germany revived an appraisal of the Adenauer era by Richard Hiscocks from Gollancz. Another work, This Germany, The Story Since the Third Reich by Rudolf Walter Leonhardt, appears from Penguin. The text notes a surprise election win by the National Democratic party in Hesse and a mass headline on the newspaper front page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Richard Hiscocks
Gollancz
Rudolf Walter Leonhardt
Penguin Books
West Germany
National Democratic Party
Hesse
Rudolf Leonhardt
Professor Hiscocks
Britain
Leonhardt
Bonn
Cambridge
London
Die Zeit
Hiscocks
Adenauer
Federal Republic
DDR
Two Views of China and Chinese Leadership
A critical review surveys Mao Tse-tung’s enduring influence in China and traces his rise from the twenties to Yenan, noting the scarcity of life-centered biographies. It compares Schram’s balanced biography with other works, and discusses Foreigner in Kweilin about Sister Rhoda Watkins, an Australian missionary nurse in 1922 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kweilin
Rhoda Watkins
Helen Caterer
the Epworth Press
Itas
Fiat
China
Communism
Mao
Chinese Communist Party
Communist Party
Yenan
Japan
Snow
Sister Watkins
Sun Yat-sen
Canton
Watkins
Kwangsi Province
Church Missionary Society Hospital
Choosing Your Career by C B Rooney
This commentary on the book Choosing Your Career by C B Rooney notes its strengths and flaws. It praises its job description focus and caution about overstating requirements while critiquing broad generalizations and selective quotes. Rooney, an ex officer of the Commonwealth Employment Service, is referenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Rooney
Ure Smith
Australia
Rooney
Commonwealth Employment Service
Facts speak for themselves in modern children's books Greece Crete and Australia
A review highlights Miroslav Sasek’s This Is Greece and Eve Pownall's They Live in Australia as strong non fiction for young readers. It praises clear text, vivid balanced illustrations, and engaging archaeological and historical content while noting some illustrations in They Live in Australia are less effective.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
Sasek
Australia
Walter Cunningham
Eve Pownall
Ausatest
Birthright: The History and Description of Sydney Harbour
P R Stephense Rigby presents a readable voyage through Sydney Harbour in a history told as a tourist trip. The work surveys lore and legends, answering questions about Tank Stream, Harbour Bridge, Circular Quay, and Kissing Point with a regional, standard reference tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney Harbour
P. RB
Stephense Rigby
Price
Kenneth Slessor
Stephenson
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Dunlevy’s Dozen Best
J. M. Preeland
Ho Chi Minh
Mao Tse-Tung
Stuart Schram
Pelican Series
Empire of China
By Rafe DE Crespigny
Mainland
Schram
Teutonicus
Nazi Germany
William Shirer
Third Reich
Shirer
Luther
Hitler
Weimar
Rhineland
Hiscock
Weimar Republic
Austria
Sudetenland
Karl Goerdeler
National Socialists
Poznan
Prussia
Goerdeler
Reich
Ralf Dahrendorf
Gesellschaft_ und Demokratie
Deutschland
By Graham Little
M. K. W. H. Allen
Ancient
Crete
Frances Wilkins
Weiden- Id & Nicolson
Rice
India
J. Homiltion
Eve Pown
Shakespeare Head
Skilful
Miroslav Sasek
Ile
Secek
Societes
Berenice Eastman
Weidenfeld
Oxford, University Press
Clarke Hutton
Ince
Nehru
Athena
Zeus
IYG
Fectonn
Fyshwick
A.C.T
P. R. Stephensen
Jessie Street
Gerald Durrell
Vincent Servanty
Angus
Robertson
Ten Square
Kingston
East Row
Civic
Adams
Beatty
Otchner Papa Hemingway
Iggulden
Summer
Canberra
Verity Hewitt
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