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Duckworth (International) assertion Duckworth i(A37271 works by) (Organisation) assertion (a.k.a. Gerald Duckworth; Gerald Duckworth and Company Limited; Duckworth and Company; Duckworth and Co.)
Born: Established: 1898 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
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1 y separately published work icon Flight of Black Swans Laura Fish , London : Duckworth , 1995 Z145134 1995 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon Elysium Robert Edric , London : Duckworth , 1995 Z54394 1995 single work novel historical fiction
1 y separately published work icon A Little Pandamonium Margaret Sutherland , Janie Hughes (illustrator), London : Duckworth , 1979 Z1444086 1979 single work children's fiction children's
2 8 y separately published work icon Jack and Jill Helen Hodgman , London : Duckworth , 1978 Z570914 1978 single work novel satire 'Jill and her dad are happy enough after her mother dies. Theirs is a simple life in the outback, far from the big city where a coathanger is being built across a sparkling harbour.

'Until Jack arrives at their door one evening, and steps inside to find the skinny, wild-looking child sitting with her grim-faced father. It's the start of all Jill's problems.

'"Absence makes the heart grow fonder," threatens Jack, as he marches off to war. And he's right, in a way—but this is no ordinary romance.

'Spanning the period from the Depression to the freewheeling '60s, Helen Hodgman's award-winning second book is a masterpiece, a twisted fairytale told with her characteristic dark wit.' (From the Penguin website.)
2 13 y separately published work icon Blue Skies Helen Hodgman , London : Duckworth , 1976 Z271751 1976 single work novel (taught in 3 units)

'A young wife and mother watches a clock that seems forever stuck at three-in-the-afternoon. Her neighbour obsesses over the front lawn, and the women at the local beach chatter about knitting patterns. Her husband didn't come home last night.

'She lives for Tuesdays and Thursdays, when the baby is with Mother-in-law and she can escape to a less humdrum life. Jonathan, man about town, is Tuesday. Ben, a freethinking artist, is Thursday.

'But Jonathan is in serious trouble, and Thursdays are turning sour. Very sour.

'A brilliant, acerbic tale of a crack-up in stultifying suburbia, Blue Skies marked the emergence of a unique voice in Australian fiction.' (Abstract for 2011 publication from Text Publishing website.)
1 y separately published work icon All Things Human (International) assertion George Sylvester Viereck , London : Duckworth , 1951 Z1314513 1951 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Fire of Youth : The Story of Forty-Five Years' Wandering Eric Muspratt , London : Duckworth , 1948 Z1248375 1948 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon Time Is a Cheat Eric Muspratt , London : Duckworth , 1946 Z1176261 1946 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Sea Urchin : Adventures of Jorgen Jorgensen Rhys Davies , London : Duckworth , 1940 Z857452 1940 single work biography
1 y separately published work icon A Mighty Man of Valour E. L. Grant Watson , London : Duckworth , 1939 Z1467592 1939 single work novel
1 4 y separately published work icon Paradise Flow Jean Devanny , London : Duckworth , 1938 Z154824 1938 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Saddles Again Will H. Ogilvie , London : Duckworth , 1937 Z1307708 1937 selected work poetry
1 3 y separately published work icon The Ghost Wife Jean Devanny , London : Duckworth , 1935 Z155324 1935 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon Ambition : An Autobiographical Novel Eric Muspratt , London : Duckworth , 1934 Z1247470 1934 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Greek Seas Eric Muspratt , London : Duckworth , 1933 Z1248389 1933 single work autobiography travel
1 y separately published work icon The Journey Home Eric Muspratt , London : Duckworth , 1933 Z1248384 1933 single work autobiography
1 2 y separately published work icon Poor Swine Jean Devanny , London : Duckworth , 1932 Z154926 1932 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Penelope's Apocalypse : a phantasy of 1922 Henry J. R. Saint , London : Duckworth , 1932 Z1399142 1932 single work poetry
2 y separately published work icon Wild Oats Eric Muspratt , London : Duckworth , 1932 Z1248520 1932 single work autobiography travel An account of the author's vagabond journey through Europe in 1926.
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