Walter Murdoch: A Biographical Memoir by John la Nauze

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Spine has cracked but binding is still intack. Dust jacket is in fair condition with tears to front cover and marks on back cover. Dust jacket is now enclosed with protective plastic cover. Still a very readable copy.

Shortly before Walter Murdoch died in 1970, aged nearly 96, the critic Arthur Phillips had written that he had probably given more pleasure to more readers than any other Australian prose writer.

Using the pen name Elzevir, for the Melbourne Argus, Murdoch was already celebrated for his literary column, Books and Men, when in 1913 he became professor of English in the new University of Western Australia.

He continued to entertain and instruct not only his students, but through his writings, two generations of Australians. (book flap)