Henry Lawson Short Stories Collection

In one volume, 34 of the most influential, beloved and popular short stories by Australia’s unquestioned master of the form, Henry Lawson . These are the best stories drawn from four of Lawson’s most popular short story collections — While the Billy Boils (1896), Joe Wilson and His Mates (1901), On the Track (1900) and Over the Sliprails (1900) — featuring some of his most memorable and beloved characters: archetypical bushman Joe Wilson , wandering story-teller Jack Mitchell , con-artists Steelman and Smith , and the mischievous trio of Dave Regan, Jim Bently and Andy Page. Also featured in this volume is the classic short story, The Drover’s Wife , which recently has been adapted into the 2022 movie The Legend of Molly Johnson. Stories in this collection include: An Old Mate Of Your Father’s Hungerford The Union Buries Its Dead On The Edge Of A Plain In A Dry Season Steelman Shooting The Moon “Some Day” The Drover’s Wife Steelman’s Pupil “Rats” Mitchell: A Character Sketch The Bush Undertaker Our Pipes The Geological Spieler Joe Wilson’s Courtship Brighten’s Sister-In-Law ‘Water Them Geraniums’ A Double Buggy at Lahey’s Creek The Loaded Dog Poisonous Jimmy Gets Left Telling Mrs. Baker The Never-Never Country Andy Page’s Rival The Iron-Bark Chip The Mystery of Dave Regan Mitchell on Matrimony Mitchell on Women Mitchell’s Jobs Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster An Oversight of Steelman’s How Steelman Told His Story A Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper Mitchell on the “Sex” and Other “Problems” As critics have said: “”Lawson’s men are men of flesh and blood; his landscapes, skies, atmosphere, are vivid and real; his broad humour is racy of the soil. He has brought a strong, unconventional mind, and a gift of intense expression to a set of new conditions and an unknown land. And, for us, it is our own land. In the softening of harsh tints too we detect Lawson looking back through the golden after-glow of memory and thinking lovingly of the homeland. He has sublime confidence in the Australian bushman.”” Henry Lawson (1867-1922) was an iconic Australian writer and poet. Lawson grew up in a rural environment, and his experiences of poverty and hardship would go on to inform and shape the stories he wrote. Henry Lawson is one of the most iconic and influential writers in Australia’s history. His work was often inspired by his love of the Australian landscape and its people. Lawson’s stories and poems often depicted the struggles and hardships of the rural working class and earned him a reputation as a champion of the working man. Lawson’s most famous works include his short stories “”The Drover’s Wife”” and “”The Loaded Dog,”” as well as his poetry collections “”In the Days When the World Was Wide”” and “”Verses Popular and Humorous.”” Throughout his career, Lawson was a vocal advocate for the rights of the working class and the importance of literature in Australian culture. His works have been adapted into film, television, and theatre productions, and remain influential to this day. Lawson remains one of the country’s most beloved writers. Our Australia Literary Classics Library is a collection dedicated to preserving and highlighting the best and most significant classic works of Australian literature, including works by Miles Franklin, Marcus Clarke, Henry Handel Richardson, Fergus Hume, Henry Lawson, Joseph Furphy, Rolf Boldrewood, EJ Banfield, Louis Stone, Caroline Leakey, and more. —- ISBN: 9798511911502