Classic Australian Short Stories

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Drawn from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries, all the stories in this collection in some way capture the spirit of the young Australian nation.  Some are the humorous, others stack, even horrifying, but all are entertaining and in some way add to the picture of Australia’s gradually emerging national character.

 

 

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While out boating one Sunday afternoon on a billabong across the river, we saw a young man on horseback driving some horses along the bank. He said it was a fine day and asked if the water “was deep there. The joker of our party said it was deep enough to drown him, and he laughed and drove further up.

We didn’t take much notice of him.

So begins Henry Lawson’s ironic but moving tale ‘The Union Buries Its Dead’, one of the many brilliant short stories included in this anthology.

Drawn from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries, all the stories in this collection in some way. capture the spirit of the young Australian nation. Some are humorous, others stark, even horrifying, but all are entertaining and in some way add to the picture of Australia’s gradually emerging national character.

From Steele Rudd’s humorous Dad and Dave stories and Barbara Baynton’s stark tales to Henry Lawson’s brilliant depictions of shearers, swaggies, selectors, drovers and their wives, these stories conjure up both the hardship and the poignancy of life in old Australia, bringing both the land and its people vividly to life.

These classic short stories should be compulsory read for aIl Australians.

 

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Weight .265 kg
Dimensions 20 × 12.5 × 2 cm

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