Index, ill, p.287non-fictionA biography of Henry Rider Haggardenglish literature, novelists - england

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

Includes Wettenhall CrollA5 Sized Book with Green Cover stawell

Autobiographical book about Alan Marshall's childhood in country VictoriaHardcover book with text and paper sleeve with colour Imageaustralian history, alan marshall, polio, authors

221 p.: plain red cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front cover, image of man leering at a partially clothed woman.'Blurb' from original dust jacket pasted inside front cover.fictionTale of "moral adventurer" Lance Courtenay, who began life as Lancaster Higger-Piggott, a humble law clerk. Very loosely based on real events and people in the eighteenth century.frederick r. ewing, historical fiction

Ngaya is a cut and paste, collage, punked-up look at my Country. It’s a country with conflicting narratives which the film explores through found footage and animation. It looks at Country from an insider-outsider perspective, someone who at once belongs to the Country but who has never lived on Country for any extended time, and has viewed it from Naarm for the past twenty years. I want people to think about the snow country away from being a holiday destination to be exploited, to think about the first people of the snow and fragility of Country. australian first nations art, video, ngarigo, animation, identity, country

In 1902 Blanche Brown was confirmed into the Anglican Church at Buninyong, being presented with this card, signed by the Bishop of Ballarat Arthur Green and Richard Hosken. Colour printed card with religious symbols and a prayer. Handwritten names of the confirmed person and those authorising the confirmation of Blanche Brown into the Anglican Church. religion, christianity, buninyong, church of england

44p., illus.non-fictionAn illustrated golfer's guide to the rules of stroke and stableford.stroke, stableford, golf - rules

The official body count: thirty-seven. All shot, most burned beyond recognition.vietnam war, 1961 - 1975 - veterans - fiction

Out of the horror and chaos that was Vietnam, a combat Marine tells his son what really happened.vietnam war, 1961 - 1975 - veterans - fiction, us marines

Black and white photograph of pupils in grades 1 & 2 at Linton State School in 1955. Photograph is accompanied by hand-written list of pupils' names.linton state school no. 880, terry wilkie, david chasey, chris van bergen, lindsay greenbank, geoff morgan, theo chasey, nico van der ploeg, robert smith, willem verdoorn, ruth coleman, elaine jackson, claire mcdonald, valda bird, mavis cornish, elaine mark, judith chasey, mary hooper, nola bird, jean mcdonald, kay jackson, shirley mark, elsha verdoorn, ann getsom, joanne van der ploeg

Black and white Group photograph, most graduated with a Diploma of Horticulture in 1967. Some names marked with a cross did not appear to graduate.Names handwritten underneath. On reverse, "Photograph by Publicity Branch Victorian Department Of Agriculture Ref. No. D.477.B." 1964, students, diploma of horticulture i 1964, group 1964

Black cover, Maroon/and grey dust jacket, pp. xvi, 344.non-fictionHistorical study of the work of Australian Army nurses during world War I. Covers nursing and training, army, environments, patterns of work, impact of disease, surgical nursing, legacy of AANS

294 p. : pale blue cover embossed with pattern of leaves/treesfictionBook centres around the life of Joseph Quinney, a London antique dealer. Explores Quinney's relationship with his family, his business rivalries, love, and romance. fiction, antique dealers, horace annesley vachell