The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories
Title | The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Lawson |
Publisher | Penguin Group Australia |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2009-03-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1742284280 |
One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his best Lawson transcends the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub or selector's hut he conveys with such brevity and acuity: he make specific places universal. Henry Lawson is too often regarded as a legend rather than a writer to be enjoyed. In this selection Lawson is revealed as an author whose delightful, humorous, wry and moving short stories continue to delight generations of readers. This is the essential Lawson collection – the classic of Australian classics. 'Lawson's sketches are beyond praise.' Joseph Conrad 'Lawson gets more feelings, observation and atmosphere into a page than does Hemingway.' Edward Garnett
Selected Short Stories, Henry Lawson
Title | Selected Short Stories, Henry Lawson PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Beardwood |
Publisher | Insight Publications |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1920693106 |
Insight Text Guides - Henry Lawson's Selected Short Stories is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to Henry Lawson's Short Stories contains detailed character and chapter analysis and explores genre, structure, themes and language. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.
The Drover's Wife
Title | The Drover's Wife PDF eBook |
Author | Leah Purcell |
Publisher | Penguin Group Australia |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2019-12-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1760144266 |
Deep in the heart of Australia’s high country, along an ancient, hidden track, lives Molly Johnson and her four surviving children, another on the way. Husband Joe is away months at a time droving livestock up north, leaving his family in the bush to fend for itself. Molly’s children are her world, and life is hard and precarious with only their dog, Alligator, and a shotgun for protection – but it can be harder when Joe’s around. At just twelve years of age Molly’s eldest son Danny is the true man of the house, determined to see his mother and siblings safe – from raging floodwaters, hunger and intruders, man and reptile. Danny is mature beyond his years, but there are some things no child should see. He knows more than most just what it takes to be a drover’s wife. One night under the moon’s watch, Molly has a visitor of a different kind – a black ‘story keeper’, Yadaka. He’s on the run from authorities in the nearby town, and exchanges kindness for shelter. Both know that justice in this nation caught between two worlds can be as brutal as its landscape. But in their short time together, Yadaka shows Molly a secret truth, and the strength to imagine a different path. Full of fury and power, Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is a brave reimagining of the Henry Lawson short story that has become an Australian classic. Brilliantly plotted, it is a compelling thriller of our pioneering past that confronts head-on issues of today: race, gender, violence and inheritance.
Henry Lawson
Title | Henry Lawson PDF eBook |
Author | Daphne Gonzalvez |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Higher School Certificate Examination (N.S.W.) |
ISBN | 9780855834081 |
Only the Animals
Title | Only the Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Ceridwen Dovey |
Publisher | Atlantic Books Ltd |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2015-02-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1782397183 |
Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death. In a trench on the Western Front a cat recalls her owner Colette's theatrical antics in Paris. In Nazi Germany a dog seeks enlightenment. A Russian tortoise once owned by the Tolstoys drifts in space during the Cold War. In the siege of Sarajevo a bear starving to death tells a fairytale. And a dolphin sent to Iraq by the US Navy writes a letter to Sylvia Plath. Exquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animals is a remarkable literary achievement by this bright young writer. An animal's-eye view of humans at our brutal, violent worst and our creative, imaginative best, it asks us to find our way back to empathy not only for animals, but for other people, and to believe again in the redemptive power of reading and writing fiction.
Henry Lawson, an Illustrated Treasury
Title | Henry Lawson, an Illustrated Treasury PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Lawson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781863025706 |
Henry Lawson Short Stories Student Book
Title | Henry Lawson Short Stories Student Book PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Bosco |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-03-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781925771459 |