| Description |
x, 447 pages ; 16 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
World's classics ; 525 |
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World's classics ; 525
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| Contents |
Beereeun the Mirage Maker / K. Langloh Parker -- The jeweller's shop / Tom Collins -- The parson's blackboy / Ernest Favenc -- John Price's bar of steel / Price Warung -- Scrammy 'And / Barbara Baynton -- The funerals of Malachi Mooney / Edward Dyson -- Send round the hat / Henry Lawson -- Fourteen fathoms by Quetta Rock / Randolph Bedford -- The night we watched for wallabies ; Kate's wedding / Steele Rudd -- The Widow Dare / H. Stone -- The champion bullock-driver / Lance Skuthorpe -- And women must weep / Henry Handel Richardson -- Adventure, a fantasy of the ranges ; The good grandmother / Hugh McCrae -- Crows / Dowell O'Reilly -- The hand / M.L. Skinner -- The lobster and the lioness / Kodak -- Hoodoo Jo / Bernard Cronin -- A bed of rubies / H.E. Riemann -- The grey horse / Katharine Susannah Prichard -- The stump / Vance Palmer -- Choice / Henry G. Lamond -- Memoirs of a professional escaper / Les Robinson -- Our new properties / James Hackston -- The dinkum Australian / Harley Matthews -- The pisé house / Brian James -- Suburban souvenir / Hermon Gill -- The pelican / Cecil Mann -- Going home / Myra Morris -- Dry spell / Marjorie Barnard -- End of an idol / Ernestine Hill -- Kaijek the Songman / Xavier Herbert -- Fear / H. Drake-Brockman -- Tell us about the turkey, Jo ; Blow Carson, I say / Alan Marshall -- The nightshift / John Morrison -- Harvest / John K. Ewers -- He walks home with his wife / Don Edwards -- The enthusiastic prisoner / E.O. Schlunke -- Seed among thorns / Dorothy Sanders -- Dust / Gavin Casey -- Two women / A.C. Headley -- No one spoke / Russell J. Oakes -- The bleeding of Irish O'Banion / James Sweeney -- You go, Florence Nightingale! ; The man who bowled Victor Trumper / Dal Stivens -- The three jolly foxes / Douglas Stewart -- Drift / Peter Cowan -- Twenty strong / Margaret Trist -- The kid / Ken Levis -- Hullo, Joe / Jon Cleary |
| Analysis |
Australia Fiction |
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Short stories, Australian |
| Notes |
Spine title: Australian short stories : first series |
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Also issued online |
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Copy 4 of this title was donated by Dr Syd Harrex |
| Subject |
Short stories, Australian.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Drake-Brockman, Henrietta, 1901-1969.
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Murdoch, Walter, Sir, 1874-1970.
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| LC no. |
a 5200007009 |
| ISBN |
0195504488 |
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