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Elliot Stock Elliot Stock i(A38407 works by) (Organisation) assertion (a.k.a. E. Stock; Stock)
Born: Established: 1859 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 1939 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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3 5 y separately published work icon Fifty Ways of Saying Fabulous Graeme Aitken , Milsons Point : Vintage Australia , 1995 Z575101 1995 single work novel humour
12 3 y separately published work icon Trustee from the Toolroom Nevil Shute , London : Heinemann , 1960 Z433730 1960 single work novel

'Keith Stewart is a quiet and unassuming man called upon to undertake an extraordinary task. A skilled maker of miniature working models, he lives a modest life devoted to his hobby. But when his sister and her wealthy husband die in a shipwreck on a coral reef in the Pacific—while trying to smuggle out of England their entire fortune in diamonds hidden in the keel of their yacht—Keith becomes trustee for his orphaned niece. To save her from destitution he must travel halfway around the world and risk a long voyage in a small boat in inhospitable waters to recover her inheritance. In the course of his adventure-filled quest, a colorful and international cast of characters mobilize to help him, and this humble man discovers he has more friends and admirers than he could have dared to imagine.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage International ed.).
14 2 y separately published work icon The Rainbow and the Rose Nevil Shute , London : Heinemann , 1958 Z43628 1958 single work novel

'When seasoned pilot Johnny Pascoe tries to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback, his plane crashes and leaves him stranded and dangerously injured. Ronnie Clarke, who was trained by Pascoe, attempts to fly a doctor in to help, but rough weather makes his mission more difficult than he imagined. As he waits overnight at Pascoe’s house for a chance to try again the next day, Clarke revisits the past of this unusual man—and reveals the shocking and tragic secrets that have influenced his life.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage International ed.).
6 6 y separately published work icon In the Wet Nevil Shute , Melbourne : Heinemann , 1953 Z27056 1953 single work novel science fiction 'It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world . . .'. Source: bookseller's website.
25 15 y separately published work icon A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute , London : Heinemann , 1950 Z564787 1950 single work novel

'Nevil Shute’s most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.

'Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. But it turns out that they have a gift for her as well: the news that the young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to help the women, had miraculously survived. Jean’s search for Joe leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Capernaum and Other Poems William Saumarez Smith , London : Elliot Stock , 1911 Z1461581 1911 selected work poetry
1 3 y separately published work icon Fairy Tales Told in the Bush 'Sister Agnes' , London : Elliot Stock , 1911 Z1413499 1911 selected work children's fiction children's Indigenous story A collection of fairy tales for Australian children, including an indigenous story about the origin of the Yarra Yarra, told to the author by King Barak. In her preface, the author explains that these tales were motivated by her experiences in Melbourne in the 1860s.
1 y separately published work icon Bush Notes on Imperial Imprints 'Offsider' , London : Elliot Stock , 1911 Z1313094 1911 selected work poetry
1 1 y separately published work icon The Drama Eternal i "O starry sky! O ever-surging sea!", Ivan Archer Rosenblum , London : Elliot Stock , 1910 Z449461 1910 single work poetry
1 1 y separately published work icon Jael : An Australian Story E. L. Sutherland , London : Elliot Stock , 1907 Z363595 1907 single work novel
1 6 y separately published work icon Voices of the Desert Ernest Favenc , London : Elliot Stock , 1905 Z176808 1905 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Coelestia and Other Australian Poems W. H. H. Yarrington , London : Elliot Stock , 1905 Z1483005 1905 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Dreams That Were Not All Dreams J. Alfred Johnstone , London : Elliot Stock , 1903 Z1065790 1903 selected work essay
1 y separately published work icon Collaborators and Other Poems Alphonsus W. Webster , London : Elliot Stock , 1901 Z1504185 1901 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon A Book of Verses Mrs James Glenny Wilson , London : Elliot Stock , 1901 Z1045834 1901 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Jean : A Play : In Prologue and Three Acts Harry Tighe , London : Elliot Stock , 1901 Z859290 1901 single work drama
1 y separately published work icon Footprints : A Memoir of the Late Alexander Hay, one of the Fathers and Early Colonists of South Australia Agnes Grant Hay , London : Elliot Stock , 1899 Z870370 1899 single work biography
1 y separately published work icon Gwen Penri : A Welsh Idyll John Bufton , London : Elliot Stock , 1899 Z291985 1899 single work novel romance
1 y separately published work icon The Medhursts of Mindala : the story of the development of a soul Jessie Mabel Waterhouse , London : Elliot Stock , 1897 Z870307 1897 single work novel
1 3 y separately published work icon Artabanzanus : The Demon of the Great Lake : An Allegorical Romance of Tasmania William M. Ferrar , London : Elliot Stock , 1896 Z292132 1896 single work novel

'Artabanzus is a moral allegory of the nether kingdom, dealing with the follies and vices of mankind; associated with the region of the Great Lake on the central tableland of Tasmania. Refers also to Tasmanian history and politics and to Christianity; includes a story of the Civil War in England as well as some original poems.'

Source: Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935 (vol.2).
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