Henry Lawson

Fifty-two of Henry Lawson's stories and sketches that he had first published in newspapers and magazines from 1888 onwards were gathered in his collection While the Billy Boils (Angus & Robertson, 1896). Lawson was not responsible for their ordering, and he had to give ground on their texts, especially on his idiosyncratic presentation of wordings that helped to breathe life...

One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson has become part of our national psyche, and his short stories and verse have come to affect how we view our own country. Yet at his best, Lawson transcends even the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub or selector's hut he conveys. The Penguin Henry...

The poems selected in this book have been enjoyed by more than seven generations, from the famous Faces in the Street, which exposed the social injustices of the late 1800s, to The Sliprails and the Spur, described as possibly the most tender and most perfect of all his poems. Combined with Pro Hart's painting, which capture the humour of some...

After some time in Western Australia and New Zealand, Lawson returned to Sydney in 1898 and published with Angus and Robertson in 1900 the works On the Tracks and Over the Sliprails. Over the Sliprails includes: The Shanty Keeper A Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper An Incident at Stiffner's A Hero of Redclay The Darling River A Case for the...