The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson

• HSC ear 12 Prescribed Texts
• Standard Module A
• Language, Identity and Culture
• Prose Fiction

‘The Drover’s Wife’, ‘The Union Buries Its Dead’, ‘Shooting the Moon’, ‘Our Pipes’, ‘The
Loaded Dog’

One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson has become part of the Australian national psyche, and his short stories and verse have come to affect how Australian’s view their country. Yet at his best Lawson transcends even 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 makes specific places universal.