p.424.non-fictionFaust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. Faust and the adjective Faustian imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term. The Faust of early books - as well as the ballads, dramas, movies, and puppet-plays which grew out of them - is irrevocably damned because he prefers human to divine knowledge; "he laid the Holy Scriptures behind the door and under the bench, refused to be called doctor of Theology, but preferred to be styled doctor of Medicine". Plays and comic puppet theatre loosely based on this legend were popular throughout Germany in the 16th century, often reducing Faust and Mephistopheles to figures of vulgar fun. The story was popularised in England by Christopher Marlowe, who gave it a classic treatment in his play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. In Goethe's reworking of the story two hundred years later, Faust becomes a dissatisfied intellectual who yearns for "more than earthly meat and drink" in his lifegerman literature, german drama

GEOFFREY RICARDO (1964- ) Born Melbourne, AustraliaAn ex libris bookplate featuring a kangaroo holding books in her pouch. This etching won the 5th Biennial Australian Bookplate Award in 2015. Judge Sasha Grishin said of the winning bookplate "Geoffrey Ricardo's bookplate marries the tradition of exquisite intaglio Ex Libris prints with a comic Australian subject matter that is distinctive, original and very memorable," Grishin says. Bookplates are commonly designed by artists for book lovers to identify their ownership, and usually use personal iconography to represent the bookworm's life and interests. Ricardo's aquatint etching is different in that he made it for himself. Art critic and Australian National University professor Sasha Grishin​ was one of the judges of the $7500 prize. "Geoffrey Ricardo's bookplate marries the tradition of exquisite intaglio Ex Libris prints with a comic Australian subject matter that is distinctive, original and very memorable," Grishin says. ( http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/geoffrey-ricardos-kangaroo-etching-wins-australian-bookplate-design-award-20151208-gli6qy.html#ixzz42XzJ0AMH) Subjectsbookplate, geoffrey ricardo, keith wingrove memorial trust, australian bookplate design award, kangaroo, award

This is a book of 48 pages. It has a green cover with a sepia sketch and black printing on the front cover and an advertisement on the back cover. The pages contain comic sketches in black and white and sepia tones. The pages are bound with metal staples.fictionThis publication is a humorous look at military life in World War 1.world war one, the bystander fragments from france, warrnambool, world war 1 humour

From the Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English: [Alan Marshall] contributed comic sketches to newspapers and magazines, collected in "Pull Down the Blind (1949) and "Bumping Into Friends" (1950) The Argus Sat 30 Sep 1950: "It consists of a hundred or so vignettes, each consisting of a little ironical story about the bores and other trivia that infest modern life.."One of many titles written by local author Alan Marshall who resided in Eltham from 1955 till his death in 1984.Hard Back bound in orange bookclothalan marshall, vane lindsay, short stories

fictionBoth heart-breaking and comic, Running Dogs is the coalface war the official histories do not tell.vietnam war, 1961-1975 - fiction, barry klemm

The 18 letters are from Arthur Edmund TRANTER V50166 & VX52843 POW. they are to his wife Pat and Daughter Brenda from Darley Camp Australia, at Sea then in Malaya prior to becoming a POW. The exercise book was written by "Tranter" to his daughter Brenda while a POW in "Gloegoer Camp" near "Medan" in Northern Sumatra. It was dedicated to his daughter. He managed to keep this hidden throughout captivity in pristine condition. Throughout the book there are subheadings, Sumatra, Singapore, Rubber, Soedaa, Siboertoet, Malacca, The story of the Cocos Islands, the Celebes, Dutch Borneo. They are the stories of these places. Some are from talks given by Officers to the men. There are two more Archival folders, Cat No's 7956.2 & 7958.2. Refer Cat No 7944 for E.A. Tranters service history..1) Black Archival folder box. .2) Black Archival folder 3 ring Binder with plastic inserts containing the following: 1. Eighteen letters hand written in B & W/Blue pen dated from 9.9.1941 - 4.4.1942. 2. Exercise book with ruled lines, hand written in blue pen 84 pages. The cover is brown with a red centre and black text with 7 black stars. 3. Original colour cartoon one page comic strip with 8 drawings of the "Medan Melbourne Frog Cup 1942"letters, archival, folder, tranter, pow