In these "Tales of the Australian Tropics" one will find the strange love stories that are written, often in letters of blood, among the half-known and mysterious regions of tropical Australia. In this work of his, Favenc's pen never fails.

Tales of the Austral Tropics (1894) is a collection of short stories published in the Sydney Bulletin in the 1890s. Set in tropical northern Australia, Favenc brings to life the half-unknown and mysterious regions of this part of Australia at this time.

The first scholarly dictionary of Australian and New Zealand English, including loan words from indigenous languages, originally published in 1898.

Tales of the Early Days (1894) is a collection of historical tales primarily concerned with the social abuses of the convict system of early Australia, such as 'Secret Society of the Ring', set in the penal colony of Norfolk Island. Warung's stories are filled with imaginative truth and 'symbolic veracity', though he draws on documentary fact and social realism. This new edition of Tales of the Early Days, with an introduction by Laurie Hergenhan, is a part of the Australian Classics Library series intended to make classic texts of Australian literature more widely available for the secondary school and undergraduate university classroom, and to the general reader. The series is co-edited by Emeritus Professor Bruce Bennett of the University of New South Wales and Professor Robert Dixon, Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, in conjunction with SETIS, Sydney University Press, AustLit and the Copyright Agency Limited. Each text is accompanied by a fresh scholarly introduction and a basic editorial apparatus drawn from the resources of AustLit.

"The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work" is a book on the exploration of mainland Australia by the greatest geographers, frontiers, and entrepreneurs of the era of great geographical discoveries. The author describes the life stories, passions, dreams, obstacles, and achievements of such great people as John Oaxley, Hamilton Hume, Allan Cunningham, Charles Sturt, Thomas Mitchell, and others.