![The Tree of Man](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/123/864/1334864123.0.m.1.jpg)
The Tree of Man
by Patrick White
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Collaroy Plateau, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 1956, First Edition.
Signed card inserted on the title page.
Condition: Jacket edges rubbed and scuffed, damage from removed promo sticker bottom right, front flap not price clipped, spotted jacket rear. Fine scattered spots to endpapers and top of prelims. Gift inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise very clean and tight internally.
About:The Tree of Man is the fourth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It is a domestic drama chronicling the lives of the Parker family and their changing fortunes over many decades. It is steeped in Australian folklore and cultural myth, and is recognised as the author's attempt to infuse the idiosyncratic way of life in the remote Australian bush with some sense of the cultural traditions and ideologies that the epic history of Western civilisation has bequeathed to Australian society in general.
"When we came to live [in Castle Hill, Sydney]", White wrote, in an attempt to explain the novel, "I felt the life was, on the surface, so dreary, ugly, monotonous, there must be a poetry hidden in it to give it a purpose, and so I set out to discover that secret core, and The Tree of Man emerged." The title comes from A. E. Housman's poetry cycle A Shropshire Lad, lines of which are quoted in the text.
"The man returned to his chair on the edge of the room, and looked at the blank book, and tried to think what he would write in it. The blank pages were in themselves simple and complete. But there must be some simple words, within his reach, with which to throw further light. He would have liked to write some poem or prayer in the empty book, and for some time did consider that idea, remembering the plays of Shakespeare that he had read lying on his stomach as a boy, but any words that came to him were the stiff words of a half-forgotten literature that had no relationship with himself." — Patrick White, The Tree of Man.
The novel is one of three by White included in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. The others are Voss and The Living and the Dead.
Synopsis
wat r u for then??>.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Dorian Gallery
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 193445499381
- Title
- The Tree of Man
- Author
- Patrick White
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st UK
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Eyre and Spottiswoode,
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Dorian Gallery
About the Seller
Dorian Gallery
About Dorian Gallery
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...