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Stephen Murray-Smith (1922–1988)

Author of Right Words: A Guide to English Usage in Australia

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Works by Stephen Murray-Smith

Right Words: A Guide to English Usage in Australia (1987) 36 copies

The Dictionary of Australian quotations (1984) 22 copies

Classic Australian Short Stories (1974) — Editor — 13 copies

Sitting on penguins : Australia and the Antarctic (1988) 11 copies

Bass Strait, Australia's last frontier (1987) 4 copies

The Tech a Centenary History of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1987) 2 copies

The tracks we travel : Australian short stories 2 copies

Henry Lawson (Australian Writers & Their Work) (1975) 1 copy

An Overland muster 1 copy

Overland 1 copy

Indirections, a literary autobiography (1981) 1 copy

AN OVERLAND MUSTER - Selections from Overland, 1954 - 1964 (1965) 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1922-09-09
Date of death: 1988-07-31
Gender: male
Nationality: Australia
Birthplace: Toorak, Victoria, Australia
Place of death: Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia
Cause of death: acute myocardial infarction
Places of residence: London, England, UK
Prague, Czechoslovakia
North Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Education: University of Melbourne
Geelong Grammar School
Occupations: teacher
editor
political activist
soldier
Relationships: Murray-Smith, Joanna (daughter)
Organizations: Australian Imperial Force
Overland

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Works: 12
Members: 95
Popularity: #197,646
Rating: 5.0

ISBNs: 18

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