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Classic Australian short stories Book

Classic Australian short stories
Classic Australian short stories, This is a welcome reissue of a classic selection of Australian short stories, first published half a century ago. The anthology includes fifty-two stories written by forty-eight leading writers. Key authors include Henry Lawson, 'Steele Rudd', Henry Hande, Classic Australian short stories has a rating of 4 stars
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Classic Australian short stories, This is a welcome reissue of a classic selection of Australian short stories, first published half a century ago. The anthology includes fifty-two stories written by forty-eight leading writers. Key authors include Henry Lawson, 'Steele Rudd', Henry Hande, Classic Australian short stories
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  • Classic Australian short stories
  • Written by author Walter Murdoch and Henrietta Drake-Brockman
  • Published by Melbourne ; Oxford University Press, 1997., 1997/08/01
  • This is a welcome reissue of a classic selection of Australian short stories, first published half a century ago. The anthology includes fifty-two stories written by forty-eight leading writers. Key authors include Henry Lawson, 'Steele Rudd', Henry Hande
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Bereeun the Mirage Maker (from More Australian Legendary Tales, 1898) 1
The Jeweller's Shop (from Steele Rudd's Magazine, 1905) 10
The Parson's Blackboy (from The Last of Six: Tales of the Austral Tropics, 1894) 19
John Price's Bar of Steel (from Tales of the Old Regime, 1897) 24
Scrammy 'And (from Bush Studies, 1902) 36
The Funerals of Malachi Mooney (from The Bulletin Story Book, 1901) 58
Send Round the Hat (from Send Round the Hat, 1907) 67
Fourteen Fathoms from Quetta Rock (from Munsey's Magazine) 90
The Night We Watched for Wallabies 103
Kate's Wedding (from On Our Selection, 1899) 107
The Widow Dare (from the Argus, Melbourne) 114
The Champion Bullock-Driver (from the Bulletin) 130
'And Women Must Weep' (from End of a Childhood, 1934) 133
Adventure: A Fantasy of the Ranges (from the Sydney Morning Herald) 141
The Good Grandmother (from Art in Australia) 143
Crows (from Five Corners, 1920) 144
The Hand (from The Adelphi, London, 1924) 148
The Lobster and the Lioness (from Bodger and the Boarders, 1921) 155
Hoodoo Jo (from the Sun, Melbourne) 167
A Bed of Rubies (from Nor'-West o'West, 1924) 175
The Grey Horse (from Kiss on the Lips, and Other Stories, 1932) 187
The Stump (from Separate Lives, 1928) 200
Choice (from the Bulletin) 209
Memoirs of a Professional Escaper (from The Giraffe's Unde, 1933) 215
Our New Properties (from the Bulletin) 226
The Dinkum Australian (from Saints and Soldiers, 1918) 237
The Pise House (from Cookabundy Ridge, 1946) 246
Suburban Souvenir (from the Argus, Melbourne) 254
The Pelican (from The River, and Other Stories, 1945) 258
Going Home (from The Township, 1947) 267
Dry Spell (from The Persimmon Tree, 1942) 277
End of an Idol (from The ABC Weekly) 287
Kaijek the Songman (from the Bulletin) 294
Fear (from Sydney or the Bush, 1948) 302
'Tell us about the Turkey, Jo ...' 312
Blow Carson, I Say (from Tell Us About the Turkey, Jo, 1946) 317
The Nightshift (from Sailors Belong Ships, 1947) 322
Harvest (from the Bulletin) 332
He Walks Home with His Wife (from High Hill at Midnight, 1944) 338
The Enthusiastic Prisoner (from the Bulletin) 343
Seed Among Thomas (from the Sydney Morning Herald) 352
Dust (from It's Harder for Girls, 1942) 359
Two Women (from the Bulletin) 363
No One Spoke (from Coast to Coast, 1944) 370
The Bleeding of Irish O'Banion (from The AIF News, 1942) 381
You Go, Florence Nightingale! (from The Courtship of Uncle Henry, 1946) 386
The Man Who Bowled Victor Trumper (ibid.) 393
The Three Jolly Foxes (from the Bulletin) 397
Drift (from Drift, 1944) 410
Twenty Strong (from What Else is There?, 1946) 415
The Kid (from Meanjin Papers, Melbourne, 1944) 421
Hullo, Joe (from The Australian Journal) 434


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