| Description |
vii, 274 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- A dispersal -- The convict laundress / Mrs. Francis Vidal -- Retribution / Mrs. Charles Clacy -- The master and his man / John Lang -- Music a terror / John Lang -- Revenge or Jem Dalton / Horace Earle -- Mystery and murder / James Skipp Borlase -- The romance of Lively Creek / Marcus Clarke -- Human repetends / Marcus Clarke -- The premier's secret / Campbell McKellar -- Miss Pallavant / Rosa Praed -- Mr. and Mrs. Sin Fat / Edward Dyson -- The story of Wills' leap / R. Spencer Browne -- Chinese Ginnie / A.G. Hales -- An old-time episode in Tasmania / "Tasma" -- Miss Jackson / Francis Adams -- "Long forster" / Francis Adams -- How muster-master stoneman earned his breakfast / Price Warung -- The luckiest man in the colony / E.W. Hornung -- "Sojur Jim" / J.A. Barry -- Malchook's doom: a nicholson river story / Ernest Favenc |
| Analysis |
Short stories in English Australian writers, to 1890 - Anthologies |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p. [270]-274 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [270]-274 |
| Subject |
Australian fiction -- 19th century.
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Australian fiction.
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Short stories, Australian -- History and criticism.
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Short stories, Australian.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114320
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Hadgraft, Cecil.
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| LC no. |
86159526 |
| ISBN |
0195545826 |
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0195547292 (paperback) |
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