While The Billy Boils
Written by Henry Lawson
Narrated by Joe Jeney
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About this audiobook
Whether in portraiture or in caricature, the world of the great Australian poet and short story writer, Henry Lawson, is filled with people to make you laugh and cry and experience every other emotion in between, and no more so than in this definitive collection of the Australian bard’s most enduring short stories. From The Bush Undertaker to The Driver’s Wife, the reader will live the adventure of late nineteenth century Australia and, at the same time, come to understand the ways of modern Australia. The humor and the pathos are both universal and timeless. The greatest hero and villain of these collected short stories remain and always will remain Henry Lawson’s Australia, a place of squatters, speilers, stragglers, swaggies, selectors, and a land of plenty of fortune and misfortune to go around.
Henry 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."
Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson was born in Grenfell, NSW, in 1867. At 14 he became totally deaf, an affliction which many have suggested rendered his world all the more vivid and subsequently enlivened his later writing. After a stint of coach painting, he edited a periodical, The Republican, and began writing verse and short stories. His first work of short fiction appeared in the Bulletin in 1888. He travelled and wrote short fiction and poetry throughout his life and published numerous collections of both even as his marriage collapsed and he descended into poverty and mental illness. He died in 1922, leaving his wife and two children.
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