The getting of wisdom

Title : The getting of wisdom

Publ Info : [Australia] : Umbrella Entertainment, c2006

Call No. : AVI 791.4372 G335W

Summary :
Critical edition of a classic Australian novel, first published 1910. It was the author's favourite of her novels and was based on her coming of age in Colonial Melbourne in the 1880s. This edition includes an account of its writing, critical reception in Australia and the English-speaking world at large, the story of its textual evolution, a fragmentary memoir of Richardson written by her close friend Mary Kernot, verses by Richardson about her schooldays, and contemporary material from her school magazine. Also includes textual notes, explanatory notes and maps. Published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback. Born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (1870-1945), author took the name Henry Handel Richardson when her first novel, 'Maurice Guest', was published in 1908. Probyn is a Professor of English at Monash University, Melbourne. Steele is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts, Monash University.

The Joy Luck Club (喜福會)

Title : The Joy Luck Club (喜福會)

Publ Info : [Burbank, Calif.] : Hollywood Pictures Home Video ; Hong Kong : Distributed by Intercontinental Video, [2000]

Call No. : AVI 791.4372 J844

Summary :
A New York Times Bestseller. In 1949 four Chinese women - drawn together by the shadow of their past - begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died. When her daughter comes to take her place, she learns of her mother's lifelong wish, and the tragic way in which it has come true.

The getting of wisdom

 Author : Henry Handel Richardson

Title : The getting of wisdom

Publ Info : San Francisco : Mercury House, c1993

Call No. : 823.912 R394G 1993


Summary :

Critical edition of a classic Australian novel, first published 1910. It was the author's favourite of her novels and was based on her coming of age in Colonial Melbourne in the 1880s. This edition includes an account of its writing, critical reception in Australia and the English-speaking world at large, the story of its textual evolution, a fragmentary memoir of Richardson written by her close friend Mary Kernot, verses by Richardson about her schooldays, and contemporary material from her school magazine. Also includes textual notes, explanatory notes and maps. Published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback. Born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (1870-1945), author took the name Henry Handel Richardson when her first novel, 'Maurice Guest', was published in 1908. Probyn is a Professor of English at Monash University, Melbourne. Steele is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts, Monash University.

The Joy Luck Club

Author : Amy Tan

Title : The Joy Luck Club

Publ Info : London : Vintage Books, 1998

Call No. : 813.54 T153J 1998


Summary :
A New York Times Bestseller. In 1949 four Chinese women - drawn together by the shadow of their past - begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died. When her daughter comes to take her place, she learns of her mother's lifelong wish, and the tragic way in which it has come true.