Kenneth Mackenzie Livres

In the late afternoon of a day in February, that hottest of Australian summer months, when a brutal sun stood bronze above the river flats which you may see from the dormitory windows of Chatterton, Charles came to the school with his mother, walking from the railway station to the gates by a private path across a burnt, untidy field, overhung with Cape lilacs that still drooped, dusty and melancholy...In the lower part of his belly fear kicked and pulsed like a child in the womb, ready to be born. Fifteen-year-old Charles Fox is sent away to boarding school, innocent, alone and afraid. There one of his masters develops an intense attachment to him. But when Charles meets Margaret, a girl staying at a nearby farm for the holidays, he is besotted, and a passionate, unforgettable romance begins. Published in London in 1937 to wide acclaim, The Young Desire It is a stunning debut novel about coming of age: an intimate and lyrical account of first love, and a rich evocation of rural Western Australia. It won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and is now back in print for the first time in years with a new introduction by David Malouf.

The narrative unfolds as a gripping thriller that delves into the complexities surrounding the murder of a beautiful emigre fleeing war-torn Europe. Rather than focusing solely on the identity of the killer, the story intricately explores the motivations and circumstances leading to her death, raising profound questions about the intertwining of personal and political conflicts. As layers of intrigue are peeled back, readers are drawn into a web of suspense that keeps them guessing until the very end.

First published in 1976, this A Theory of Group Structures is a study of the aggregation of individuals into groups, which cuts across many different social sciences. Volume one attempts to formulate a more rigorous theory of group structures by providing consistent definitions, assumptions, measures, methodology, theory and results. Volume two examines a sequence of twelve experiments and reports empirical tests of the theory presented in volume one. The result is a major revision of existing research into problems of group structure and a case study in paradigm development. This book will be of interest to students of all social sciences.

Charles Fox ist fünfzehn, als er dem Paradies entrissen wird. Er wuchs in Australien umgeben von unberührtem Buschland auf, doch nun beginnt sein neues Leben in einem Internat, wo Knaben zu Männern geformt werden sollen. Die Mitschüler drangsalieren ihn, Freundschaft findet er ausgerechnet bei einem Lehrer, der sich erotisch zu ihm hingezogen fühlt. Als er in den Ferien endlich wieder in die geliebte Natur eintaucht und der gleichaltrigen Margaret begegnet, spürt Charles zum ersten Mal ein großes, ungekanntes Verlangen. „Was sie begehren“ ist ein Roman der ersten Liebe, der unvergleichlichen Intensität der Jugend. Als er 1937 erschien, wurde er zu einer Sensation. Jetzt endlich liegt er auf Deutsch vor.