'The chance' [script] (1987) (unpublished)
- UQFL164-Series C-Subseries 9
- Subseries
- 1987.
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Drafts, notes, and corrections for 'The Chance : A play adapted from the short story of the same name'.
'The chance' [script] (1987) (unpublished)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Drafts, notes, and corrections for 'The Chance : A play adapted from the short story of the same name'.
The chance [short story] (1979)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Typescript drafts, notes, story outlines for the short story The chance, on yellow paper, with emendations. One draft has handwritten date 20 Mar 1977.
The Conversations at Curlow Creek [Novel] (1996)
Part of David Malouf Papers
'The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair, also Irish, is an officer of the police who has been sent to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two discover unexpected connections between their lives, and learn new truths. Outside the hut, Adair's troopers sit uneasily, reflecting on their own pasts and futures, waiting for the morning to come. With ironic humour and in prose of starkly evocative power, the novel moves between Australia and Ireland to explore questions of nature and justice, reason and un-reason. , the workings of fate, and the small measure of freedom a man may claim in the face of death.' Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage reprint).
This sub-series contains handwritten and typescript drafts, with emendations.
The cosmic pragmatist : A portrait of Stephen Wall by Peter Carey [short story] (1977)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Typescript draft, 15 leaves, two handwritten corrections on last page, 29 Aug 1977.
The fat man in history (A short story by Peter Carey) [short story] (1974)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Carbon typescript (45 leaves ; 26 cm) of the short story The fat man in history : (A short story by Peter Carey). Includes a copy of the layout for the back cover and the entire cover of the short story collection The fat man in history, with annotations.
The Fox and the Magpie [Libretto]
Part of David Malouf Papers
The Fox and the Magpie. A divertissement for two voices and four instruments. By David Malouf. Music by Kurt Schwertsik, 24 pages, spiral bound.
Malouf, David, 1934-
'The futility machine' [novel] (1966-67) (unpublished)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Bound draft typescript and loose leaf typescript of the unpublished novel 'The futility machine'.
The Great World [Novel] (1990)
Part of David Malouf Papers
In The Great World Malouf enters familiar Australian territory with a story of war experience and mateship. The narrative contrasts the personalities of two men and their experiences in the Second World War, Digger Keen, the archetypal, taciturn Australian, gifted with a photographic memory, and Vic Curran, whose ambition and drive take him from poverty to the top of the business world. The Great World was first published in 1990 and won the Miles Franklin Award in 1991, the Adelaide Festival Award and two international awards, the 1991 Commonwealth Prize for fiction and the Prix Femina Etranger in France for the best foreign novel. This subseries consists of a draft early version of the novel, originally titled ‘The Memorialists’, the first handwritten draft of the novel, and a typescript draft in five parts with many handwritten corrections and additions.
The last days of a famous mime [short story] (1979)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Typescript draft of notes for The last days of a famous mime, with emendations, undated.
Part of Alan Wearne Papers