The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories
- Authors
- Lawson, Henry
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Australia
- Tags
- classics
- ISBN
- 9780140092158
- Date
- 1986-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.79 MB
- Lang
- en
**Henry Lawson is too often regarded as a legend rather than a writer to be enjoyed.**
In this selection John Barnes reveals Lawson not only as a writer who has delighted past generations.
His short stories, some humourous, some wry, some moving are, above all, enjoyable.
Stories include
The Drover's Wife
The Bush Undertaker
In a Dry Season
The Union Buries its Dead
Hungerford
'Rats'
An Old Mate of Your Father's
Mitchell: A Character Sketch
On the Edge of a Plain
'Some Day'
Shooting the Moon
Our Pipes
Bill, the Ventriloqual Rooster
The Geological Spieler
The Iron-Bark Chip
The Loaded Dog
Brighten's Sister in Law
A Double Buggy at Lahey's Creek
'Water them Geraniums'
Joe Wilson's Courtship
Telling Mrs Baker
A Child in the Dark, and A Foreign Father