HENRY LAWSON S short stories

are as fresh, moving and funny today

as when they were first published.

~The Drover s Wife , The Loaded

Dog and many other Lawson

classics have become part oftheAus-

tralian legend. They arc the kind of

storlcs which parents read to their

children, and which are loved by

generation after generation.

Lawson cut straight through the

flowery verbiage of the Victorian era

to address the reader in an instantly

recognisable voice -- that of the or-

dinars Australian.

But there was nothing ordinary

about Henry Lawson. His great sen-

sitivity, humour, unfailing ear for

dialogue and his mastery of the

understatemenL combined with his

intense love of the Australian out-

back and her people, made him an

Australian literary giant. No other

writer has contributed so much to

our national heritage, nor inspired

such great affection.

This selection of Lawson s best-

loved stories is enhanced by nostal-

gic drawings and woodcuts which

evoke a bygone Australia.