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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 The Oxford Book of Australian Schooldays
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Oxford University Press , 1997 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Goodbye School, Mary Grant Bruce , extract children's fiction children's (p. 100-103)
The Sound of Malice (from Bright Morning : The Story of an Australian Family Before 1914), Frances Margaret McGuire , extract autobiography (p. 103-105)
Aboriginal Hearts (from If Everyone Cared : Autobiography of Margaret Tucker M.B.E.), Margaret Tucker , extract autobiography (p. 118-121)
A Liberal Education (from Day of My Delights : An Anglo-Australian Memoir), Martin Boyd , extract (p. 123-125)
Everything in Its Place (from The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony : An Australian Autobiography), Hal Porter , extract (p. 130-133)
Shades of the Prison House (from A Late Education : Episodes in a Life), Alan Moorehead , extract autobiography (p. 133-136)
Sectarian Passions (from A Radical Life : The Autobiography of Russel Ward), Russel Ward , extract (p. 136-138)
England Their England, Kenneth Mackenzie , extract novel (p. 139-140)
Schoolroom with a View (from A House of Trees), Joan Colebrook , extract (p. 140-143)
Theatre of Cruelty (from The Puzzles of Childhood : His Early Life), Manning Clark , extract (p. 145-148)
Summer Haunts (from A Kingdom by the Sea), Nancy Phelan , extract (p. 148-150)
Portrait of the Artist, Bernard Smith , extract autobiography (p. 151-153)
Transplanted (from The Waves), Virginia Woolf , extract (p. 157)
Transported, Patrick White , extract autobiography (p. 158-160)
Perfect Uniform (from A Suburban Girl : Australia 1918-1948), Moira Lambert , extract (p. 163-165)
Loco Parentis (from Woman with Two Hats : An Autobiography), June Epstein , extract autobiography (p. 165-169)
Floyd's Flock (from In the Heart or in the Head: An Essay in Time Travel), George Turner , extract (p. 169-172)
The Sin of Lunchlessness (from The Old School), Christina Stead , extract (p. 179-181)
Cold Comfort (from Moon and Rainbow : The Autobiography of an Aboriginal), Dick Roughsey , extract (p. 186-188)
Empire in the Sun (from The Education of Young Donald), Donald Horne , extract (p. 188-189)
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