The State Library is worth a visit for the catalogue and the architecture. The La Trobe Reading Room is breathtaking.

From their website: The State Library of Victoria is on the corner of Swanston and La Trobe Streets at the northern edge of Melbourne's central business district; www.slv.vic.gov.au

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This novel, about the aftermath of nuclear war, is set in the imagined future of 1964 where Australia is the only country to survive a nuclear war. It was made into a film in 1959, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner.

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Helen Garner: The Feel of Steel, a collection of articles mostly about Melbourne; this writer truly captures the spirit of Melbourne: “a Melbourne sky, the sort whose hugeness you can only know by being a speck on a plain.” (Picador,2001). For a very readable social history tying place to class: Janet McCalman's Struggletown and Journeyings (Melbourne University Press).

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