Lucid Intervals by Walter Murdoch

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Mark on top front cover. Foxing to foredges. No dust jacket. Book is now in a non-adhesive glossy protective cover.

Lucid Intervals is a collection of essays by Sir Walter Murdoch, first published in 1936.

The essays are satirical short pieces blending intellectual curiosity with everyday observations. They were designed to educate by entertaining, maintaining a voice of reason and decency during a time when Australia was still defining its cultural identity.

The book includes essays such as The Pink Man's Burden, which satirises imperialist attitudes and the "burden" of the white man; On Mean Street, which critiques the hypocrisy of complacency and artificial respectability; and Strange Effect of a Tonic, which explores the unintended and often absurd consequences of taking cures.