Romulus My Father

Author : Raimond Gaita
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921921161
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romulus, My Father written by Raimond Gaita and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1998 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, Romulus, My Father is an iconic and deeply loved book. Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy's life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary story to tell about growing up with his father amid the stony paddocks and flowing grasses of country Australia. Written simply and movingly, Romulus, My Father is about how a compassionate and honest man taught his son the meaning of living a decent life. It is about passion, betrayal and madness, about friendship and the joy and dignity of work, about character and fate, affliction and spirituality. No one will read this wonderful book without an enhanced sense of the possibilities of being alive. 'I know of no other book where the love between father and son has been more beautifully expressed.' Robert Manne

Author : Marc Hyden
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526783185
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romulus written by Marc Hyden and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting biography of the legendary founder and first king of Rome. According to legend, Romulus was born to a Vestal Virgin and left for dead as an infant near the Tiber River. His life nearly ended as quickly as it began, but fate had other plans. A humble shepherd rescued the child and helped raise him into manhood. As Romulus grew older, he fearlessly engaged in a series of perilous adventures that ultimately culminated in Rome’s founding, and he became its fabled first king. Establishing a new city had its price, and Romulus was forced to defend the nascent community. As he tirelessly safeguarded Rome, Romulus proved that he was a competent leader and talented general. Yet, he also harbored a dark side, which reared its head in many ways and tainted his legacy, but despite all of his misdeeds, redemption and subsequent triumphs were usually within his grasp. Indeed, he is an example of how greatness is sometimes born of disgrace. Regardless of his foreboding flaws, Rome allegedly existed because of him and became massively successful. As the centuries passed, the Romans never forgot their celebrated founder. This is the story that many ancient Romans believed. Praise for Romulus “Hyden leans into a tone reminiscent of a bard regaling those around a campfire with stories of a hero’s great exploits . . . [He tells] a fascinating origin story.” —Booklist “As inherently fascinating a read as it is an impressive work of meticulous scholarship . . . a truly extraordinary, expressly informative, and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and university library Roman History & Culture collections and supplemental curriculum studies reading lists.” —Midwest Book Review

Author : Raimond Gaita
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921921153
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Romulus written by Raimond Gaita and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In After Romulus, Gaita revisits the world of his classic memoir Romulus, My Father. He writes about the making of the acclaimed film starring Eric Bana, ideas of truth, the limits of character, and the conflict between love and morality. And, most movingly, about his mother Christine.

Author : Raimond Gaita
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315474751
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosopher's Dog written by Raimond Gaita and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully written book Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that lived and died within his own family. He asks fascinating questions about animals: Is it wrong to attribute the concepts of love, devotion, loyalty, grief or friendship to them? Why do we care so much for some creatures but not for others? Why are we so concerned with proving that animals have minds? Reflecting on these questions, and drawing on the ideas of Descartes, Wittgenstein and J.M. Coetzee, Gaita pleads that we ask ourselves what it means to be creatures of ‘flesh and blood.’ He discusses mortality and sexuality, the relations between storytelling, philosophy and science and the spiritual love of mountains. An arresting and profound book, The Philosopher’s Dog is a triumph of both storytelling and philosophy. This Routledge Classics edition includes a substantial new introduction and afterword by the author.

Author : Osamah Sami
Publisher : Hardie Grant Books
ISBN 13 : 1743583214
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Muslim Boy written by Osamah Sami and published by Hardie Grant Books. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Muslim Boy tells the story of Osamah Sami’s journey from Iran during the Iraq war to the suburbs of Australia and his quest to fit into his new life whilst trying to stay a good Muslim boy. In turns comic and tragic, Osamah’s story explores the universal truths of growing up, falling in love, marriage, family and following one's dream; whilst also telling the immigrant’s story of straddling two cultures and the difficult expectations of family and faith versus fitting in. Osamah begins by recounting his youth under Islamic rule in Iran: the mischievous antics that he and his friends would get up to, and the lengths they would go to for a little contact with girls – resulting in hilarious reprimands from the ‘Piety Police’. But the inescapable impacts of war are never far away and Osmah details the trauma his family suffered from the violence in Iran and their desperation to reach safer shores in Australia. Cut to Australia years later where Osamah is pretending to attend university after lying to his family about his final high school results, afraid of the shame it will it cause to learn that their son didn’t make it into medical school. While embroiled in his lie, Osamah meets the girl of his dreams – but as neither of their parents would approve of their relationship, they must carry out their affair in secret... What ensues must be read to be believed, an arranged marriage is escaped; true love is embraced; and an acting career evolves, as Osamah goes on the road staging a show entitled ‘Saddam The Musical’. With a distinct authorial voice, Osamah Sami’s A Good Muslim Boy unfolds and enchants us; both funny and entertaining, we are enlightened, shocked, saddened, made to laugh, and ultimately uplifted in a tale that couldn’t come at a more prescient time.

Author : Livy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Rome written by Livy and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742537383
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Eye, The Sky written by Tim Winton and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Eye, the Sky is Tim Winton's luminous novel about a boy's vision of the world beyond, and about finding a way through cataclysm. Ort knows the sky is watching. He knows what it means to watch; he spends long hours listening at doors and peering through cracks. Things are terribly wrong. His father is withering away, his sister is consumed by hatred, his grandmother is all inside herself, and his mother, a flower-child of the 1960s, is brave but helpless. Then a strange man appears at their door. That Eye, the Sky is a novel about the miraculous power of love, and the blurry distinctions between the natural and the supernatural. All this, and more, begins at the moment the ute driven by Ort Flack's father ploughs into a roadside tree, throwing the whole world out of kilter. 'The best book about a boy I've read since Huckleberry Finn.' Sydney Morning Herald 'A story of generosity, insight and originality.' Weekend Australian 'A wrenching story that proves that love like Ort's can prevail against hell itself.' Publisher's Weekly

Author : Raimond Gaita
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781925498691
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romulus, My Father written by Raimond Gaita and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The Text Classics edition of the hugely beloved Australian classic Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita • Text’s original edition of Romulus, My Father sold over 150,000 copies in print and eBook • Adapted to film in 2007, winning Best Film and Best Actor for Eric Bana at the 2008 AFIs • Gaita tells the story of his father fleeing his native Yugoslavia at the age of 13, coming to Australia with his young wife and the infant Raimond—a memoir about a man who in the face of tragedy and hardship taught his son about the meaning of living a decent life • Raimond Gaita is a public intellectual, an Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at King’s College London, and Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Arts • This Text Classics edition will be introduced by Walkley Award-winning journalist Anne Manne—wife of Robert Manne, who initially encouraged Gaita to expand the eulogy he gave at his father’s funeral into this memoir

Author : Barry Spurr
Publisher : Pascal Press
ISBN 13 : 1741253675
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HSC Standard English written by Barry Spurr and published by Pascal Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide contains comprehensive summary and discussion of all 44 prescribed texts in the HSC Standard English course, plus a list of key issues to consider in each chapter related to the relevant syllabus area, helpful advice on how to read different types of texts, plot outlines, character discussion and interpretations.

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783083387
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Patriography written by Stephen Mansfield and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Son’s Book of the Father, as Richard Freadman termed it, is a rich field of relational autobiography, offering a unique set of tensions and insights into modes of masculinity, notions of identity and the ethics of representing another’s life in writing one’s own. This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers places an emerging sub-genre within its literary ancestry and its contemporary milieu. Providing compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others, this is the first study of its kind within Australian literature.