| NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES |
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note that the Bibliography is by no means complete. As we gather more information and we have the time, this list will be continually updated. A veritable work in progress ...
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| A Curate in Bohemia — 1913 Sydney |
A Curate in Bohemia
1981
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A Curate in Bohemia
1991
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Redheap — 1930 London
every mother's son — 1930 new york |
Redheap
1966
Ure Smith Pty Ltd, Sydney
Humorbooks Edition
Softcover, black and white
Through him Australian boyhood and adolescence have manifested themselves yet more strongly and vividly than through any other writer. At his simplest, and that is his best, he is as refreshing as a midsummer dive into a torrent ...
H M Green
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Redheap
1972
Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney
Arkon Paperback
Softcover, black and white
Banned for 28 years after it was first published in 1930, Redheap is a comedy of life in a small town in Victoria. Chiefly it is concerned with the various steps Robert Piper takes to overcome the abysmal boredom of adolescence — from love affairs with servant girls and the parson's daughter to evenings of beer and philosophy with the roaring Mr Bandparts. But it is also the story of the whole Piper family: the distracted draper at the head of it, Hetty and Ethel with their lovers and their troubles, the awful infliction of Uncle Jobson, and the inimitable Grandpa Piper whose errors of tact and behaviour include standing on Uncle Jobson's top-hats, hiding a leg of mutton under his bed, and running off to Melbourne with the maidservant.
Through (Norman Lindsay) Australian boyhood and adolescence have manifested themselves yet more strongly and vividly than through any other writer ... as refreshing as a midsummer dive into a torrent.
H M Green
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Redheap
1979
Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney
Arkon Paperback
Softcover, black and white
Banned for twenty-eight years after it was first published in 1930, Redheap is a comedy of life in a small town in Victoria. Chiefly it is concerned with the various steps Robert Piper takes to overcome the abysmal boredom of adolescence — from love affairs with servant girls and the parson's daughter to evenings of beer and philosophy with the roaring Mr Bandparts. But it is also the story of the whole Piper family: the distracted draper at the head of it, Hetty and Ethel with their lovers and their troubles, the awful infliction of Uncle Jobson, and the inimitable Grandpa Piper whose errors of tact and behaviour include standing on Uncle Jobson's top-hats, hiding a leg of mutton under his bed, and running off to Melbourne with the maidservant.
Through (Norman Lindsay) Australian boyhood and adolescence have manifested themselves yet more strongly and vividly than through any other writer ... as refreshing as a midsummer dive into a torrent.
H M Green
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Miracles by Arrangement — 1932 London
MR GRISHAM AND OLYMPUS — 1932 new york |
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| The Cautious Amorist — 1932 New York |
The Cautious Amorist
1934 April
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The Cautious Amorist
1934 May
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The Cautious Amorist
1934 November
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The Cautious Amorist
1935 April
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The Cautious Amorist
1935 September
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The Cautious Amorist
1936 May
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The Cautious Amorist
1937 February
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The Cautious Amorist
1937 October
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The Cautious Amorist
1938 January
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The Cautious Amorist
1938 April
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The Cautious Amorist
1938 August
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The Cautious Amorist
1938 October
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The Cautious Amorist
1939 January |
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The Cautious Amorist
1939 April
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The Cautious Amorist
1939 July
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The Cautious Amorist
1939 December
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London
101st thousand printing
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The Cautious Amorist
1960
World Distributors (Manchester) Ltd, London
Softcover, black and white
This uproariously funny novel begins when the liner S.S. Minorca is wrecked and the beautiful and voluptuous Sadie Patch finds herself in an open boat with James Carrol, a cynical journalist, Patrick Plunket, an amorous and virile stoker, and the Rev. Fletcher Gibble.
Drifting ashore on the desert island they are faced with commencing a new life from very primitive beginnings. All is well in their Garden of eden for a short time and then as each man becomes more and more aware of Sadie's obvious charms, discord breaks out amongst them.
How she copes with the three Don Juans is the theme of this saucy and provocative novel.
Norman Lindsay's book has already appeared in more than twenty printings.
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The Cautious Amorist
1962
Horwitz Publications Inc. Pty Ltd, Sydney
Softcover, black and white
A beautiful, voluptuous girl ... a cynical journalist ... an amorous, virile stoker ... a shy bewildered clergyman ...
Shipwrecked on a desert island, they face a primitive new life together. And as each of the men becomes increasingly aware of Sadie's obvious charms, an impossible situation becomes uproarious ...
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The Cautious Amorist
1969
Horwitz Publications Inc Pty Ltd, Sydney
Horwitz Australian Library Edition
Softcover, black and white
A beautiful, voluptuous girl. A cynical journalist. An amorous, virile stoker. A shy, bewildered clergyman.
Shipwrecked on a desert island, they face a primitive new life together. And as each of the men becomes increasingly aware of Sadie's obvious charms, an impossible situation becomes an uproarious comedy.
Norman Lindsay is today acknowledged as one of Australia's greatest artists. Better known as a painter, black and white illustrator and lithographer than as a novelist, he nevertheless has many excellent books to his credit, of which The Cautious Amorist has been his most successful. A bestseller when first published in 1934 — it was reprinted over twenty-three times in its hardcover edition — this novel has as its theme a situation with an almost universal appeal — to the romanticist because it offers an escape from reality; to the realist because it offers a chance to speculate on human behaviour in isolation; to the optimist because it offers good fun; to the cynic because it proves just how perverse and paradoxical the animal nature of human beings actually is. To all of us, desert islands will always have a fascination!
The Cautious Amorist was made into a highly successful motion picture, retitled Our Girl Friday and starring Joan Collins and Robertson Hare. Another novel by Lindsay, Age of Consent, has recently been filmed, starring James Mason. |
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| Saturdee — 1933 Sydney |
Saturdee
1933
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Saturdee
1966
Ure Smith Pty Ltd, Sydney
Humorbooks Edition
Softcover, black and white
Through him Australia boyhood and adolescence have manifested themselves yet more strongly and vividly than through any other writer. At his simplest, and that is his best, he is as refreshing as a midsummer dive into a torrent ...
H M Green |
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Saturdee
1977
Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney
Arkon Paperback
Softcover, black and white
Saturdee written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay ... his famous novel about boys growing up.
Saturdee is more consistently amusing than Tom Sawyer, it is more lifelike, a more authentic picture of boyhood.
Douglas Stewart
Saturdee evokes brilliantly the drama, humour and tremendous adventure of boyhood.
Canberra Times
The high comedy of this timeless story, in its depiction of the antics of boys and the strange ways of their elders, is brilliantly captured in the author's illustrations, which are as alive and observant as his prose. |
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Saturdee
1981
Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney
Softcover, black and white
The Australian critic Douglas Stewart has compared Saturdee with Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer in these words:
Book for book, I enjoyed and still enjoy Saturdee more. It is more consistently amusing than Tom Sawyer, it is more lifelike, a more authentic picture of boyhood; and consequently it evokes and sustains more firmly those recollections of one's own boyhood which are one of the chief pleasures such essentially reminiscent works provide.
The high comedy of this timeless story, in its depiction of the antics of boys and the strange ways of their elders, is brilliantly captured in the author's illustrations, which are as alive and observant as his prose.
Saturdee is the first title in a trilogy by Norman Lindsay. It is followed by Halfway to Anywhere — a comedy of adolescence — and Redheap, where some of the leading characters have struggled through to their twenties. |
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| Pan in the Parlour — 1933 New York |
Pan in the Parlour
1933
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Pan in the Parlour
1934 September
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Pan in the Parlour
1934 November
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Pan in the Parlour
1934 December
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Pan in the Parlour
1936 July
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Pan in the Parlour
1937 September
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Pan in the Parlour
1938
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Pan in the Parlour
1939 January
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Pan in the Parlour
1939 April
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Pan in the Parlour
1939 May
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Pan in the Parlour
1939 October
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London
53rd thousand printing
Softcover, black and white
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| Age of Consent — 1938 London |
Age of Consent
1962 |
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Age of Consent
1968
Softcover, black and white
Film Edition
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Age of Consent
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| The Cousin from Fiji — 1945 Sydney |
The Cousin from Fiji
1965
Ure Smith Pty Ltd, Sydney
Humorbooks Edition
Softcover, black and white
Through him Australian boyhood and adolescence have manifested themselves yet more strongly and vividly than through any other writer. At his simplest, and that is his best, he is as refreshing as a midsummer dive into a torrent ...
H M Green |
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The Cousin from Fiji
1974
Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney
Arkon Paperback
Softcover, black and white
High life in Ballarat and low life in Melbourne as Hilary Shadlet pursues the charming Cecelia or falls into the company of the terrible Conkey Tonks, while Uncle George cherishes both his beard and Gussie Maguire, and Grandma Domkin indomitable hoses the neighbours — that is The Cousin from Fiji; one of the funniest, yet one of the most substantial, of Norman Lindsay's novels.
I made the mistake of beginning this manuscript on a train bound for Washington, wrote Bennett Cerf in a report to the US publishers of The Cousin from Fiji. Inside of twenty minutes I was laughing so hard that fellow occupants of the car (I think one was a Senator) dropped their stockmarket reports and regarded me with obvious indignation. Embarrassed, I put the book aside until I could enjoy it to my heart's content in seclusion ... I only know that I laughed myself sick over it. |
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The Cousin from Fiji
1979
Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney
Softcover, black and white
High life in Ballarat and low life in Melbourne as Hilary Shadlet pursues the charming Cecelia or falls into the company of the terrible Conkey Tonks, while Uncle George cherishes both his beard and Gussie Maguire, and Grandma Domkin indomitable hoses the neighbours — that is The Cousin from Fiji, one of the funniest, yet one of the most substantial, of Norman Lindsay's novels.
I made the mistake of beginning this manuscript on a train bound for Washington, wrote Bennett Cerf in a report to the US publishers of The Cousin from Fiji. Inside of twenty minutes I was laughing so hard that fellow occupants of the car (I think one was a Senator) dropped their stockmarket reports and regarded me with obvious indignation. Embarrassed, I put the book aside until I could enjoy it to my heart's content in seclusion ... I only know that I laughed myself sick over it. |
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| Halfway to Anywhere — 1947 Sydney |
Halfway to Anywhere
1970
Pacific Books, Sydney
Softcover, black and white
Bill and Waldo, still at school and the victims of parental authority, wake up one morning to find that girls are not at all what they'd supposed.
Previously, the boys had always ignored the fair sex. Indeed, they had rather despised them. Now, abruptly, they find girls both mysterious and desirable — downright disturbing, in fact.
Shyness inhibits them; ill-fortune and the tyranny of parents dog their efforts to discover more about these delectable creatures; and misadventure and high comedy pursue them as they in turn pursue the girls of their choice.
Pure comedy blends with astute psychological insight to make this amusing sequel to Saturdee a truly delicious book. It is both hilarious and wise: hilarious in its humour and wit; wise in its understanding of the youthful heart and mind. |
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Halfway to Anywhere
1972
Angus & Robertson (Publishers) Pty Ltd, Sydney
Arkon Paperbacks
Softcover, black and white
This rollicking, down-to-earth novel is Norman Lindsay's comedy of adolescence. In the autobiographical sequence of his novels, in which most of his best writing is to be found, it comes midway between Saturdee — that spirited study of boyhood with Professor R. G. Howarth has compared with the immortal Tom Sawyer — and Redheap, where some of the leading characters have struggled through to their twenties.
In Halfway to Anywhere, taking much the same group of boys as in Saturdee, now grown to hairy adolescence, Norman Lindsay puts them through all the agonies and ecstasies appropriate to their years: the first dreadful sampling of cooking sherry; the conflicts with intolerable elder brothers and sisters, not to mention mere parents; the building of the "pleasure-house" with the dilapidated sofa on which no girl ever sat; the first transports of love. Everybody who has ever been young will recognise the appalling truth of this picture; anybody who has grown up in an Australian country town, imprisoned for ever so it seems in a dust-heap from which stars and far distant girls glimmer like intimations of paradise, will relish it even more. |
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Halfway to Anywhere
1979
Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney
Softcover, black and white
This rollicking, down-to-earth novel is Norman Lindsay's comedy of adolescence. He takes a group of boys and puts them through all the agonies and ecstasies appropriate to their years: the first dreadful sampling of cooking sherry; the conflicts with intolerable elder brothers and sisters, not to mention mere parents; the building of the "pleasure-house" with the dilapidated sofa on which no girl ever sat; the first transports of love. Everybody who has ever been young will recognise the appalling truth of this picture; anybody who has grown up in an Australian country town, imprisoned forever, so it seems in a dust-heap from which stars and far distant girls glimmer like intimations of paradise, will relish it even more.
In the sequence of his Norman Lindsay's novels, Halfway to Anywhere comes midway between Saturdee — that spirited study of boyhood — and Redheap, where some of the leading characters have struggled through to their twenties. |
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| Dust or Polish? — 1950 Sydney |
Dust or Polish
1981
Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney
Softcover, black and white
Long before the younger generation of Sydney emigrated en masse to the inner-city suburb of Paddington, Norman Lindsay was fascinated by its lanes, its tenements, it curious old shops that sold curious old treasures or junk, its people who never observed the rules of more respectable suburbs.
A complete change from his novels of boyhood and adolescence, more sophisticated, set in Sydney instead of rustic Victoria, Dust or Polish is the unusual and highly entertaining story of Rita, a showgirl who tires of stage life and finds a new career and romance in the secondhand furniture business. There's absorbing interest in Rita's efforts to learn the tricks of the trade, and rich humour in her struggle for power with the gin-soaked Mrs Dibble. On both fronts, Rita is supported by Peter Bodfish, an inspired but eccentric furniture restorer who is often a disconcerting ally. Another staunch friend is Dr Grimsby, who patience is finally rewarded. All of Norman Lindsay's famous gusto and vitality is demonstrated in this thoroughly satisfying novel. |
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| Rooms and Houses — 1968 Sydney |
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| Micomicana — 1979 Melbourne |
Micomicana
1979
Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
Hardcover, boxed, (de luxe), edition of 527, black and white
Micomicana
... a series of cheerful, bawdy short stories, placed in a fantasy
country called Pattipanonia, the dukedom of the Duke of Fanfrolico,
the capital of which is the town of Catchcrumpet.
Micomicana was published on 22 February 1979 to celebrate the
centenary of the birth of Norman Lindsay. This superb edition presents
a hitherto unpublished series of Lindsay's most robust and delightful stories,
together with over two hundred of the finest pen drawings that this remarkable
artist ever made. Every copy has been signed personally by Norman Lindsay's
daughter Jane, who is the author of the engaging and informative Introduction.
The Story of Micomicana from the Introduction by Jane Lindsay.
The first publication of Micomicana, ten years after my father's
death, seems a fitting way to celebrate his centenary. This book with its
exuberance, humour and spirit of eternal youth seems to me the quintessence
of Norman Lindsay. It is certainly as I remember him.
He began writing the stories in the 1920s, and in 1952 he wrote:
I've
finally managed to complete a work which I started about thirty years ago.
As a child I became acquainted with the Dukedom of Pattipanonia through
an etching Norman did of a map of all the places in the stories. (This
map now forms the endpapers of the book.) The pen drawings I can remember
well from my childhood ...
As he was rewriting and retyping the stories, he read them to me with great
gusto and enjoyment, particularly relishing his own inventiveness in the
absurd-sounding names of his characters.
When each story was typed and complete it was set into a large scrap book
... It was fascinating to watch the illustrations grow under his sure,
precise and seemingly effortless pen. Sometimes he talked as he worked,
and I listened and watched with admiration. My interest in the project
was intensified by his promise to give me the finished 'scrap book', and
mounting the typescript and drawings became a joint and absorbing project
... Some of the typed sheets had blank spaces carefully ruled into them
for the later addition of small drawings, and Norman did a neat job typing
around them. The resulting tome he bound in leather and carefully inscribed
its name on the cover — a complete and satisfying job. All this was
a night-time pursuit in the studio, belonging as it did to the category
of 'larks' ... Watching the book grow was an unforgettable experience,
apart from being a lark for both of us.
Published posthumously. |
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