The Penguin Henry Lawson short stories Book

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