Humorous Stories of Henry Lawson by Henry Lawson - USED

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (1867 – 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". For generations of readers, Henry Lawson has been the most Australian of Australian writers. His works expressed the essential qualities of a nation, and nowhere is this more evident than in his humorous stories. In this definitive collection of Lawson at this humorous best, you will meet a whole gallery of characters – the drover, the swaggie, the bush philosopher, the larrikin, the digger, and the confidence man – all revealing a typically Australian brand of humour. This new edition presents the stories accompanied by the paintings of Samuel Thomas Gill. Like Lawson, Gill had the knack of capturing the essence of a national through a subtle examination of character types. His deceptively simple, yet sharply realized portraits of Australian life perfectly complement this dry humour of Lawson’s stories. Lawson’s humorous tales and Gill’s wonderful panting are, individually, rich national legacies. Together they present a book full of warmth and laughter that will be treasured by generations of come.