Henry Lawson

the bridge series The Bridge Series offers interesting reading matter for the students of English as a second or foreign language who have reached a stage between the graded supplementary reader and full English. Having enjoyed a number of books in the Simplified English Series such a student is...

THE DROVER'S WIFE The two-roomed house is built of round timber, slabs, and stringybark, and floored with split slabs. A big bark kitchen standing at one end is larger than the house itself, veranda included. Bush all round—bush with no horizon, for the country is flat. No ranges in the...

Marcus ClarkeDie Meuterei auf der CyprusAm 9. August 1829 wurde die Cyprus, ein Schiff, das im Dienste der Regierung von Van Diemen's Land Strafgefangene von Hobart Town nach Macquarie Harbour brachte, von den Gefangenen in ihre Gewah gebracht und in die Südsee entführt.Es ist eine Geschichte...

Introduction IX pii !Tc; : ¦ I I I' 1 In this selection of thirty-eight Australian short stories the editors have attempted to represent diversity in structure and style, illustrating the variation in literary trends in the his- I , torical development of this genre. While any collection...

Acknowledgements Fór permission to reprint copyright stories, thanks are due and are hereby tendered to : L. A. G. Strong and Victor Gollancz Ltd. fór * Prongs ' from The English Captain ; Marjorie Pickthall and Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. fór * The Worker in Sandalwood' from Angel's Shoes; H. E....