Title: Australian short stories:
Authors: James, Brian,
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1963
Subjects: Short stories, Australian.
Contents: The pleasure-house / Norman Lindsay -- Marlene / K. Susannah Prichard -- Trochus Island / Vance Palmer -- Father clears out / James Hackston -- Untimely aid / Brian James -- The wasteland / Frank Dalby Davison -- The river / Cecil Mann -- Speak to me / Marjorie Barnard -- The promise / R.S. Porteous -- Kaditcha / Henrietta Drake-Brockman -- The rise and fall of Jeremiah Laffin / Xavier Herbert -- The sleeping doll / John Morrison -- Clear profit / Don Edwards -- Old Heinrich and the lambing ewe / E.O. Schlunke -- It finds its level / Gavin Casey -- I wouldn't miss Christmas / David Campbell -- The wisdom of Ragos / Olaf Ruhen -- The scholarly mouse / Dal Stivens -- Sisters / Judith Waten -- A flying fragment / Jack Lusby -- The birth of Mrs. Paget / Douglas Stewart -- Halcrow Street / Margaret Trist -- Mr. Barker drops in / John Fountain -- The wedge-tailed eagle / Geoffrey Dutton -- A schoolie and a ghost / David Rowbotham -- The time of the peacock / Mena Abdullah and Ray Mathew -- The rector's wife tempts the bishop with a brew of nyppe / Ethel Anderson -- The township / Myra Morris.