9780454001983 - Saint Ned: The story of the near sanctification of an Australian outlaw (14 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. The jacket is edgeworn and marked.Ex-library book.Front and end pages tape reinforced.Well bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 25.5 x 18.5cms 128pp b/w illusts This book argues that the Kelly legend has supported a small army of academics writers musicians playwrights and film producers. It looks at the ways the legend has shaped Australian commerce and ponders over a culture that worships a horse thief and murderer.

25.5 x 18.5cms 128pp b/w illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper This book argues that the Kelly legend has supported a small army of academics writers musicians playwrights and film producers. It looks at the ways the legend has shaped Australian commerce and ponders over a culture that worships a horse thief and murderer.

25.5 x 18.5cms 128pp b/w illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper This book argues that the Kelly legend has supported a small army of academics writers musicians playwrights and film producers. It looks at the ways the legend has shaped Australian commerce and ponders over a culture that worships a horse thief and murderer.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Methuen, Sydney, 1980. Hard cover. Book condition : Very good, clean unmarked text. Superb photographs. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #JB0022191.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 128pp, num bw ills. Or brown cloth in jacket. Endpapers toned, some foxing to page edges. . It is a strange facet of the Australian psyche that allows one of our most famous outlaws, Ned Kelly, to become hero rather than villain. This is the story of Ned Kelly and how Australian's have almost raised him to the level of Sainthood through legend and folklore. Size: 4to.

Hardback. 1980, First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine d/w.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Book condition very good. Hard cover. Dust jacket good, repaired on the back top-left hand corner with Acid free sticky tape. Book boards are clean front and back of the book. Book block is clean all side of the book. Text body clean throughout the book. Spine intact. Extra charges for over-sea shipping due to weight over 500gram. See photos. Saint Ned: The Story of the Near Sanctification of an Australian Outlaw by Keith Dunstan, published in 1980. It s a sharp, satirical look at how Ned Kelly, one of Australia s most infamous bushrangers, was transformed from a convicted criminal into a near-mythical folk hero. What the book explores: The legend-building around Ned Kelly, especially in the century following his execution in 1880. How popular culture films, plays, books, and even merchandise helped elevate Kelly to near-sainthood. A critique of the Australian psyche, which Dunstan suggests has a curious tendency to romanticize rebellion and outlaw behaviour. The commercialization of Kelly s image, from tourist attractions to memorabilia. It s not a dry biography it s witty, ironic, and questions why Australians have embraced a man who was, by all accounts, a horse thief and murderer, as a symbol of national identity. Book weight 0.635kg.

Hardcover / Hardback. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Since he was hanged in Melbourne jail in 1880, Ned Kelly, has become big business. The outlaw who fought against the moneyed people of his day is now a considerable money-spinner himself. The Kelly legend has supported a small army of academics, writers, musicians and playwrights - not to mention film, radio and television producers. Re-enactments of episodes in the Kelly career attract ever-increasing numbers of tourists to the scenes of his crimes, where they buy Ned Kelly T-shirts, salt and pepper shakers, car stickers and cardboard helmets. They flock in thousands to look at the old Melbourne jail in Russell Street, in which Ned Kelly was imprisoned and hanged. The author takes a wry look at the Kelly legend, and what is has meant for Australian commerce. In the process he examines why an Irish horse thief and murderer is regarded as an unofficial national hero. Illus. + References. 128pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Nr. F. in sl. sunned Vg+ dw.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. Slight shelf wear to edges and corners of cloth. Slight shelf wear to edges of D/J. Since he was hanged in Melbourne jail a century ago, Ned Kelly has become big business. The outlaw who fought against the moneyed people of his day is now a considerable money-spinner himself. Kelly has also inspired a bewildering variety of products, including soap, after-shave lotion and poker machines that growl, 'Such is life' when they pay out. The author takes a wry look at the Kelly legend, and what it has meant for Australian commerce. Inthe process, he examines why we regard an Irish horse thief and murderer as an unofficial national hero. 128pp illustrated(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1980 first edition hardback in near fine condition. Erased pencil marks just about discernible on inside cover. No other marks, clean and bright, tight binding, flawless red cloth boards. In its original, unclipped dust wrapper with minimal shelf wear. A lovely copy. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.

Etat : Very Good. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy with minor shelfwear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Etat : Very Good. Large 8vo. hardcove. 128pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.

Etat : Very Good. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy with minor shelfwear. . . . .