Best Stories of Henry Lawson

"The Drover's Wife", "The Loaded Dog", "The Union Buries Its Dead", "Send Round the Hat", "A Daughter of Maoriland"—here are thirty-five of Henry Lawson's finest short stories. Comic or tragic, macabre or humane, always the very essence of the legendary Australia of his period, they represent, as Cecil Mann says in his preface, "Australia's most noted short story writer at his excellent best". Gathered from a wide range of Lawson's books—including While the Billy Boils, On the Track, Joe Wilson, The Rising of the Court, and By the Banks of the Murrumbidgee—the collection is a distillation of the best of the monumental three-volume Stories of Henry Lawson, published by Angus & Robertson in 1964. Cecil Mann, who has selected Best Stories of Henry Lawson from the three-volume collection, is himself a distinguished short story writer and was for many years associated with the Bulletin, the journal in which so many of Lawson's stories were first published.