{"product_id":"9781921961236","title":"The Burning Library: Our Great Novelists Lost and Found","description":"\u003cb\u003eA perfect introduction to Australian literature, \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Library\u003c\/i\u003e explores the lives and work of some of our greatest novelists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Alarmed by the increasingly marginal status of Australian literature in the academy, Williamson has set out to reintroduce us to those key writers whose works we may have forgotten or missed altogether. His focus is on fiction that gives pleasure, and he is ardent in defence of books that for whatever reason sit uneasily in the present moment.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Burning Library\u003c\/i\u003e is a dynamic act of reclamation inspired by Miles Franklin's claim that a nation that fails to acknowledge its literary treasures is 'neither preserved nor developed, but only defaced'.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Writers discussed in this collection: \u003cbr\u003e M. Barnard Eldershaw \u003cbr\u003e Xavier Herbert \u003cbr\u003e Christina Stead \u003cbr\u003e Dal Stivens \u003cbr\u003e Patrick White \u003cbr\u003e Jessica Anderson \u003cbr\u003e Sumner Locke Elliott \u003cbr\u003e Amy Witting \u003cbr\u003e Olga Masters \u003cbr\u003e David Ireland \u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Harrower \u003cbr\u003e Thomas Keneally \u003cbr\u003e Randolph Stow \u003cbr\u003e Gerald Murnane\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eGeordie Williamson\u003c\/b\u003e is chief literary critic of the \u003ci\u003eAustralian\u003c\/i\u003e  newspaper, a position he has held since 2008, though his essays and  reviews have been appearing in newspapers and magazines here and in the  UK for over a decade. In 2011, he won the Pascall Prize for  criticism, Australia's only major national prize awarded for critical  writing. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e textpublishing.com.au\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180868649200,"sku":"9781921961236","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921961236_p0.jpg?v=1763632840","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921961236","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}