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Featured Classic
Featured Classic

Our featured classic for April is Joan Lindsay’s charming and evocative autobiography tells the story of her marriage to Sir Daryl Lindsay, of their life in Melbourne in the 1920s and ’30s. Revealed in this delightful reminiscence is Lindsay’s fascination with the ambiguities of time, seen by some as the key to the mysteries of her masterpiece Picnic at Hanging Rock.

 

About the Text Classics
About the Text Classics

The visionary Diana Gribble founded Text in 1990. She wanted to create an independent publishing house that would find books to enlighten, challenge and entertain us.

 

In keeping with this vision, Text Classics are iconic books by our most loved writers.

 

The Text Classics series is designed to unearth some of the lost marvels of our literature, and to allow readers to rediscover wonderful books they have never forgotten. These books are milestones in the Australian experience. We have chosen them in the conviction that they still have much to say to us, undiminished in their power to delight, challenge and surprise us.  

Find a Classic Set Near You
Find a Classic Set Near You

Did you know there are thirty-seven Text Classics set in New South Wales? Or that twenty-two have won major awards? You can now filter the Classics based on setting as well as genre.

 

And you can sort them by author, introducer, Text Classic publication date or their very first publication date—the first in 1788,  in fact, when Watkin Tench wrote his fascinating account of arriving with the First Fleet.

  

Try out the new sorting features now.

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