by David Malouf
INDEX OF SEARCHABLE TERMS
‘1788’
A Day’s Work
A Diversity of Creatures
A Farewell to Arms
A Hero of Our Time
A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
A Little Tea, A Little Chat
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
‘A Villequier’
A Winter’s Tale
Académie Française
‘The Action’
Aeschylus
All Quiet on the Western Front
America
Americas, New World of
Amores
Amours
Antony and Cleopatra
Apologie
‘Aqualung Shinto’
Areopagitica
argumentative writing
Aristotle
Ars Amatoria
‘The Art of Fiction’
art of love
As You Like It
Atala
Auden, W. H.
The Aunt’s Story
Austen, Jane
Australian Letters
authority
‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’
Babel, Isaac
Baldwin, Stanley
Balzac, Honoré de
Barnes, Julian
Barrack Room Ballads
Baudelaire, Charles
Bauer, Felice
‘Bavarian Gentians’
Beckett, Samuel
‘Before the Law’
Benn, Gottfried
Bergson, Henri
Berlioz, Hector
Bibesco, Antoine
Bible
The Binoculars of Helen Nell
Birds, Beasts and Flowers
Blake, William
Bleak House
Blüher, Hans
bondage
‘Booz endormi’
Borges, Jorge Luis
‘The Breach’
The Bridge Builders
‘Broad Bean Sermon’
Broch, Hermann
Brontë, Charlotte
Brontës
Brueghel
Buddenbrooks
Bug-Jargal
Burke, Edmund
‘The Burrow’
‘Butterfly’
Calas, Jean
Calmette, Gaston
Camus, Albert
Carrier, Jean
The Castle
Castorp, Hans
Chapman, George
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cities of the Plain
Citizen Kane
Cocteau, Jean
Collected Poems
colonialism
Comédie Française
comedy
The Comedy of Errors
The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Contre Sainte-Beuve
Cotter’s England
The Count of Monte Cristo
Country Doctor
‘The Courtship of Dinah Shand’
Cousin Bette
Criterion
Cromwell
‘Cycling in the Lake District’
The Damnation of Faust
Dante
David Copperfield
Davies, Peter
de Fénelon, Bertrand
de Montesquiou, Robert
de Noailles, Mme
de Vega, Lope
de Vigny, Alfred
Death in Venice
‘Demain dès l’aube’
Dickens, Charles
Diderot, Denis
‘Die Verwandlung’
Dinesen, Isak
Doctor Faustus
‘Dolly Formosa’s Last Stand’
Dombey and Son
Donne, John
Double Indemnity
Dreyfus, Robert
Drouet, Juliette
The Drums of the Fore and Aft
Dryden, John
Du côté de chez Swann
Dumas
‘The Edge of the Forest’
Edna Everage
education
Ehrenberg, Paul
Eliot, T. S.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Epicurus
Erdgeist
eroticism
‘Evening Alone at Bunyah’
experience
writing out of
expository writing
families
Fantasia of the Unconscious
fate
Fielding, Henry
Figaro
Finnegans Wake
First World War
Flaubert, Gustave
Flaws in the Glass
‘Folklore’
For Love Alone
Forster, E. M.
Fourth Eclogue
freedom, notion of
Freud, Sigmund
Galton, Arthur Howard
The Ganges
Georgics
Gide, André
Gil Blas
global economy
‘Glory of Darkness’
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goldsmith, Oliver
Goodbye to All That
Gray, Alex Xenophon Demirjian
‘The Great Wall of China’
Greece
‘The Greeks Are Coming’
Greenaway, Peter
Gringoire, Pierre
Groddeck, Georg
Hadji Murat
Hahn, Reynaldo
Hamlet
Hamsun, Knut
Han d’Islande
Hardy, Thomas
Hauptmann, Gerhart
Hazlitt, William
Hebrew Bible
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry IV
Henry V
Her Privates We
Hernani
Hesse, Hermann
His Girl Friday
Homer
homosexuality
Horace
House of All Nations
Hugo, Abel
Hugo, Victor
Humphries, Barry
The Hunger Artist
Iliad
illiteracy
imaginative writers
impressionism
‘In the Penal Colony’
Indians
indigenous people
information technology
‘Investigations of a Dog’
Italy
J’accuse
James, Henry
Jane Eyre
Jean Santeuil
Jewishness
Johnson, Dr Samuel
Jonathan Wild
Joseph and His Brothers
Joseph novels
Joyce, James
The Judgement
Julius Caesar
Jungle Books
Kafka, Franz
Kafka, Herman
Kermode, Frank
Kierkegaard, Søren
Kim
King Lear
Kipling, Rudyard
La Comédie Humaine
La Dame aux Camélias
La Reine Margot
La Tulipe Noire
Lahore Civil and Military Gazette
language
Lascaris, Manoly
Last Poems
Laughton, Charles
law, necessity of
Lawrence, D. H.
Lawrence, T. E.
Le Bal du Comte d’Orgel
le Blond, Maurice
Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné
Le Diable au Corps
Léautaud, Paul
Leconte de Lisle
Lermontov, Mikhail
‘Les Djinns’
Les Misérables
Les Orientales
Les Travailleurs de la Mer
Letter to the Father
Letty Fox, Her Luck
Life’s Handicap
The Light That Fails
Lindsay, Jane
Lives of the Poets
Look! We Have
Come Through!
Lotte in Weimar
‘Love o’ Women’
Lunch and Counter Lunch
McAndrew’s Hymn
Macbeth
Mackenzie, Kenneth ‘Seaforth’
Maeterlinck, Maurice
The Magic Mountain
Malcolm, Janet
man, nature of
The Man Who Loved Children
‘Manifest’
Mann, Heinrich
Mann, Katya
Mann, Thomas
Manning, Frederic
Marlowe, Christopher
marriage
Martin Chuzzlewit
Memoirs
The Memoirs
Memoirs of Many in One
Meredith, George
Meres, Frances
‘The Metamorphosis’
metaphysical poets
The Middle Parts of Fortune
Milton, John
Mine Own People
‘Mister Roberts’
Moby-Dick
Molière
Mörike, Eduard
Mother Gunga
Mozart’s Journey to Prague
Mucedorus
Murray, Les
Musil, Robert
‘My Lord the Elephant’
My Secret Life
Nabokov, Vladimir
Napoleon
Napoléon Le Petit
Nazism
Nettles
‘New Heaven and Earth’
The New Yorker
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nobel Prize
Nodier, Charles
Northanger Abbey
Notre-Dame de Paris
novels
‘Oceano Nox’
Oedipus
O’Hara, Frank
The Old Curiosity Shop
Olympian gods
‘On Cannibals’
Onanism and Neurosis
‘On Civil Disobedience’
order
Othello
Ovid
Owen, Wilfred
Paine, Tom
Painter, George
The Palm Beach Story
Pansies
Paul et Virginie
The Peasants
Penal Colony
The People with the Dogs
Petrarch
‘Phar Lap in the Melbourne Museum’
Philibert, Diane
The Pillow Book
Plain Tales from the Hills
Plato
Plutarch
poet
Pollnitz, Christopher
Pope, Alexander
Porter, Peter
‘Portrait of the Autist As a New World Driver’
Pound, Ezra
Prager Presse
‘The Private Life’
‘The Prodigal Son’
Proust, Marcel
Belles Lettres
The Book
Quasimodo
Radiguet, Raymond
reading
Rebecca
The Red Badge of Courage
Reflections of an Unpolitical Man
René
‘Report to an Academy’
Restoration
Rhys, Jean
Richard III
Riders in the Chariot
Rimbaud, Arthur
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Robb, Graham
Roman Elegies
The Romance of the Rose
Romanticism
Romeo and Juliet
‘Rostered Duty’
Rothenstein, William
Royal Highness
Sadism and Masochism
Salammbô
Sassoon, Siegfried
Scenes and Portraits
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Secessio Judaica
‘Sentiments filiaux d’un parricide’
‘Sergeant Forby Lectures the Cadets’
sermons
Sesame and Lilies
Seven Poor Men of Sydney
Shakespeare, William
Henry IV
history plays
The Tempest
young life
Shaw, George Bernard
‘Sidere Mens Eadem Mutato’
Sidney, Sir Philip
silence
‘Snake’
Soldiers Three
The Solid Mandala
Something of Myself
Sophocles
Spectator
‘The State of Grace’
Stead, Christina
Stekel, William
The Stepmother’s Tragedy
Stern, James
Stewart, Douglas
The Stoker
Studies in Classic American Literature
Suckling, Sir John
Swift, Jonathan
‘Sydney Cove’
The Tables of the Law
The Taming of the Shrew
technology
The Tempest
‘Their Cities, Their Universities’
Thoreau, Henry
Time Regained
Tolstoy, Leo
‘Tonio Kroger’
The Tree of Man
The Trial
Timon in Centennial Park
The Transposed Heads
Tristan
The Trojan Women
Troy
The Turn of the Screw
The Twyborn Affair
Ulysses
Under the Deodars
United States
van Blarenbergh, Henry
Vawdrey, Clare
Vergil
The Vicar of Wakefield
‘The View From Misfortune’s Back’
The Vigil of Brunhild
Voltaire
Voss
‘Wedlock’
Wee Willie Winkie
Weil, Simone
Wells, H. G.
Westermeier, Franz
White, Patrick
Whitman, Walt
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wilde, Oscar
Wohryzek, Julie
Woolf, Virginia
writers
Wyatt, Sir Thomas
The Young Desire It
Zola, Émile
Zweig, Stefan
About the Author
David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels and stories including The Grea World, Remembering Babylon, An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek, Harland’s Hal Acre, Dream Stuff, Every Move You Make, Collected Stories, Ransom and the autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street. His most recent books are A First Place, The Writing Life and Being There. He was born in Brisbane in 1934 and lives in Sydney.
Also by David Malouf
Fiction
Ransom
The Complete Stories
Every Move You Make
Dream Stuff
The Conversations at Curlow Creek
Remembering Babylon
The Great World
Antipodes
Harland’s Half Acre
Child’s Play
Fly Away Peter
An Imaginary Life
Johnno
Nonfiction
12 Edmondstone Street
A First Place
Being There
Poetry
Selected Poems: Revolving Days
Typewriter Music
First Things Last
Wild Lemons
Neighbours in a Thicket
Bicycle and Other Poems
Libretti
Jane Eyre
Baa Baa Black Sheep
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The Writing Life
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‘On Experience’ reprinted with thanks to Melbourne University Press
‘The Quick of Things: Lawrence and Walt Whitman’ reprinted with thanks to
Sydney Review of Books
Introduction to The Young Desire It reprinted with thanks to Text
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