Letters of John Reed: Defining Australian cultural life 1920-1981

Barrett Reid and Nancy Underhill (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0670815063 / ISBN 13: 9780670815067

Published by Viking, Ringwood, Victoria, 2001

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Minimal wear to jacket. No tears. Book very clean. Binding tight. 943pp Size: 160mm x 249mm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Letters of John Reed: Defining Australian cultural life 1920-1981
• Publisher: Viking, Ringwood, Victoria
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670815063
• ISBN 13: 9780670815067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

For more than 40 years, writer, innovator and philanthropist John Reed played a defining role in Australian cultural life. These selected letters, published for the first time, demonstrate the extraordinary degree to which he influenced various personalities, institutions and events of the modernist movement in Australia. Spanning from the mid-1920s, when Reed returned to Australia after studying law in England, until his death, his correspondence portrays a man of diverse interests, especially in radical artists of the '60s and '70s. Reed also championed many causes, and his letters allow new interpretations of the social web of 20th-century Australia.