The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories

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 humorous, 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