Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland

by Jim Davidson

'Lilliput, ' in this dual biography, is the world of literary magazines in Australia between the 1940s and the 1980s. Here Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith, of the journals Meanjin and Overland, were determined, driven visionaries. Both were very human-and occasionally bruised-believers in and workers for a better nation. The book ranges from before the Menzies era and the Cold War, through the Whitlam period and beyond to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522877400
• ISBN13: 9780522877403
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"