Joe Wilson's mates : 56 stories from the prose works of Henry Lawson
Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922UUUU
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Henry Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's 'greatest short story writer'. This book contains fifty six of his classic short stories
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South Yarra Vic. Currey O'Neil
Collation:
456 pages 1 page of plates
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First published: London : Remington, 1888
Contents:
Joe Wilson's courtship -- Brighten's sister-in-law -- 'Water them geraniums' -- A double buggy at Lahey's Creek -- The golden graveyard -- The Chinaman's ghost -- The loaded dog -- Poisonous Jimmy gets left -- The ghostly door -- A wild Irishman -- The babies in the bush -- A bush dance -- The buck-jumper -- Jimmy Grimshaw's wooing -- At Dead Dingo -- Telling Mrs Baker -- A hero in Dingo-Scrubs -- The little world left behind -- The romance of the swag -- Buckholt's Gate -- The bush-fire -- The house that was never built -- 'Barney take me home again' -- A droving yarn -- Gettin' back on Dave Regan -- 'Shall we gather at the river?' -- His brother's keeper -- The story of 'Gentleman Once' -- The ghosts of many Christmases -- The rising of the court -- 'Roll up at Talbragar' -- Wanted by the police -- The bath -- Instinct gone wrong -- The hypnotized township -- The exciseman -- Mateship in Shakespeare's Rome -- Send round the hat -- That pretty girl in the army -- 'Lord Douglas' -- The blindness of One-eyed Bogan -- Two sundowners -- A sketch of mateship -- On the Tucker Track -- A bush publican's lament -- The shearer's dream -- The Lost Soul's Hotel -- The boozers' home -- The sex problem again
ISBN:
0855505885 (hbk)
Dewey class:
LAWSON
Language:
English
BRN:
36522
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