Jane Gleeson-White

Jane Gleeson-White has worked as a bookseller, writer, book editor and reviewer in Sydney and London since completing her degrees in English and Australian literature, and economics, at the University of Sydney in 1987. She also worked as a student at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, where she studied Byzantine, early Renaissance and Modern art. She currently lives in Sydney.

Books by Jane Gleeson-White

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  Classics

  Mark Twain defined a literary classic as 'something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read'. But what was true in the nineteenth century doesn't hold today. In our uncertain modern times, not only do books considered classics still fill the shelves of many bookshops, but these books continue to exert a powerful influence on contemporary culture.

  When Jane Gleeson-White wrote an article on classic books for Good Reading magazine, she was amazed at the response it elicited: students, teachers and reading groups were eager for recommendations from 'the canon', the list of classic texts that until quite recently was compulsory reading in Australian schools.

  The result is this beautiful book on why the greatest works of literature matter, and what they can give us today.

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  Australian Classics

  Australian Classics celebrates many of the country's beloved novels, poems, short stories, children's books and seminal works of non-fiction. It also contains contributions on their favourite Australian books from many distinguished writers and scholars, including Helen Garner, Nikki Gemmell, Les Murray and Tim Winton.

  Australian Classics is an impassioned and inspiring feast of the great writing that makes exalted readers of us all - and a testament to the wide-ranging and remarkable literature of this continent.

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