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Hardcover:
9780670479528 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A lonely, middle-aged Englishwoman, bound to her bedridden mother and her clerical job, becomes enthralled by her correspondence with Australian novelist Diana Hopewell and by the novel that Diana is writing in her letters
Paperback:
9780892553709 | Reprint edition (Persea Books, July 1, 2012), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A dazzling comic novelâa delightful romp and a blistering satire.
9780140077438 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, November 1, 1985), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A lonely, middle-aged Englishwoman, bound to her bedridden mother and her clerical job, becomes enthralled by her correspondence with Australian novelist Diana Hopewell and by the novel that Diana is writing in her letters
Edwin and his wife, Cecilia, are parted for a year while Cecilia pursues a medical fellowship, and Edwin soon finds his life complicated when his new neighbors--a widow and her twentyish daughter--move in uninvited
Hardcover:
9780060159405 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Edwin and his wife, Cecilia, are parted for a year while Cecilia pursues a medical fellowship, and Edwin soon finds his life complicated when his new neighbors--a widow and her twentyish daughter--move in uninvited
Hardcover:
9780670807291 | 1 edition (Viking Pr, November 1, 1985), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Alma Porch, a spinster and aspiring writer, agrees to teach a course during a summer session at a remote school in Australia
Paperback:
9780140083804 | Viking Childrens Books, October 1, 1986, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Alma Porch, a spinster and aspiring writer, agrees to teach a course during a summer session at a remote school in Australia
Paperback:
9780892553525, titled "The Vera Wright Trilogy: My Father's Moon/ Cabin Fever/ The Georges' Wife" | 1 edition (Persea Books, March 30, 2010), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This moving masterpiece by one of Australiaâs leading novelistsânow in its entiretyâinaugurates Perseaâs series of Elizabeth Jolley revivals.
Hardcover:
9781863680431 | Fremantle Arts Center Pr, March 1, 2005, cover price $19.95
Paperback:
9780909144906 | Fremantle Pr, February 1, 1985, cover price $14.95
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780732024505 | Unabridged edition (Louis Braille Audio, September 1, 2001), cover price $64.95
Hardcover:
9780909144494 | Fremantle Arts Center Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This is the story of an old cleaning woman, known as Weekly, or 'The Newspaper'.
9780670809462 | Viking Pr, December 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Motivated by the desire to own her own land and a country house, Claremont Street cleaning lady and local gossip authority Margarite Morris is helped toward her goal by a perfectly timed accidental death
9780909144487 | Fremantle Pr, February 1, 1985, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Motivated by the desire to own her own land and a country house, Claremont Street cleaning lady and local gossip authority Margarite Morris is helped toward her goal by a perfectly timed accidental death
Paperback:
9781921361364 | Fremantle Pr, April 30, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This is the story of an old cleaning womanÂknown as ÂWeeklyâ or ÂThe Newspaperâ to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she worksÂwho dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present.
9780949206596, titled "Newspaper of Claremont Street" | Fremantle Arts Center Pr, May 16, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The central character of Weekly dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present, as she battles against a hostile community to buy her plot of land.
9781860498329 | New edition (Gardners Books, October 5, 2000), cover price $12.55 | About this edition: Unknown to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she works, elderly cleaning lady 'Weekly' or 'the Newspaper' dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present.
9780140085822 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1988), cover price $6.95
Hardcover:
9780670811038 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: On the way home from a dance, Hester Harper, a lonely spinster, and Katherine, a young orphan girl who works on Hester's isolated farm, run into a mysterious creature and deposit the evidence in the farm's deep well
Paperback:
9780140089011 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1987, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: In this haunting tale of obsessive love and sexual awakening, a young orphan is drawn away from her guardian to the well where the injured voice of a my sterious "dead" creature calls her.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780732023980 | Unabridged edition (Louis Braille Audio, January 1, 2000), cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged eccentric, brings Katherine into her life, and together they run the farm.
Hardcover:
9780892551163 | Persea Books, May 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: As the relationship between a fifty-year-old gynecologist barred from her profession and Andrea becomes closer, events long suppressed are revealed, including unorthodox entanglements of love, a bizarre medical accident, and possible murder
Paperback:
9780702219481 | Reprint edition (Univ of Queensland Pr, April 1, 1998), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Elizabeth Jolley's first novel is an unusual, haunting story of the deep relationship between two women, set against the solitude, beauty and harshness of the West Australian landscape.
9780892551361 | Reprint edition (Persea Books, August 1, 1988), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: As the relationship between a fifty-year-old gynecologist barred from her profession and Andrea becomes closer, events long suppressed are revealed, including unorthodox entanglements of love, a bizarre medical accident, and possible murder
Paperback:
9780702220234 | Univ of Queensland Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Elizabeth Jolley's celebrated novel is set in a Summer School amid an isolated and surreal landscape where nothing is quite as it appears.
Paperback:
9780060921514 | Reprint edition (Perennial, July 1, 1992), cover price $10.00
Hardcover:
9780060166229 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Veronica White, a nurse attending a medical conference in New York, recalls her experience as an unwed mother and her affair with a much older man
Hardcover:
9780060160623 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Set in wartime England this novel relates the story of Vera,a nurse who has a baby and a friend Ramsden, and parents who don't understand her.
Paperback:
9780060916596 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, April 1, 1990), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Fleeing her constricted home life, Veronica Wright becomes a nurse, caring for the casualties from Normandy and becoming infatuated with a philandering doctor
Stories from two previous collections, 'Five Acre Virgin' and 'The Travelling Entertainer,' are combined in a volume that includes an autobiographical piece describing the people and things that have influenced the author
Paperback:
9780140085815 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 1989), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Stories from two previous collections, 'Five Acre Virgin' and 'The Travelling Entertainer,' are combined in a volume that includes an autobiographical piece describing the people and things that have influenced the author
Hardcover:
9780670821136 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Stories from two previous collections, 'Fire Acre Virgin' and 'The Travelling Entertainer,' are combined in a volume that includes an autobiographical piece describing the people and things that have influenced the author
Short stories portray commonplace characters coping with unexpected situations
Paperback:
9780140084184 | Penguin USA, November 1, 1986, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Short stories portray commonplace characters coping with unexpected situations
Jacob, young son of an Australian winegrower, is torn between Louise, the slight daughter of his music teacher, and Madge, a married member of the local orchestra
Paperback:
9780892551033 | Persea Books, May 1, 1986, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Jacob, young son of an Australian winegrower, is torn between Louise, the slight daughter of his music teacher, and Madge, a married member of the local orchestra
Paperback:
9780892553693 | Reprint edition (Persea Books, July 1, 2012), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A dazzling comic novelâa delightful romp and a blistering satire.
9780140074901 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1984), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Mr.
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