Australian short stories
By: selected by Walter Murdoch and H. Drake-Brockman
Series: The world's classics -- 525; World's classics -- 525.
Publisher: G. Cumberlege; Oxford University Press
Published: 1951
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Fiction; Australian Short stories
Notes: "First published ... in 1951"--Verso of t.p.
Table of contents: title: Beereeun the Mirage Maker / K. Langloh Parker; title: The jeweller's shop / Tom Collins; title: The parson's blackboy / Ernest Favenc; title: John Price's bar of steel / Price Warung; title: Scrammy 'And / Barbara Baynton; title: The funerals of Malachi Mooney / Edward Dyson; title: Send round the hat / Henry Lawson; title: Fourteen fathoms by Quetta Rock / Randolph Bedford; title: The night we watched for wallabies ; Kate's wedding / Steele Rudd; title: The Widow Dare / H. Stone; title: The champion bullock-driver / Lance Skuthorpe; title: And women must weep / Henry Handel Richardson; title: Adventure, a fantasy of the ranges ; The good grandmother / Hugh McCrae; title: Crows / Dowell O'Reilly; title: The hand / M.L. Skinner; title: The lobster and the lioness / Kodak; title: Hoodoo Jo / Bernard Cronin; title: A bed of rubies / H.E. Riemann; title: The grey horse / Katharine Susannah Prichard; title: The stump / Vance Palmer; title: Choice / Henry G. Lamond; title: Memoirs of a professional escaper / Les Robinson; title: Our new properties / James Hackston; title: The dinkum Australian / Harley Matthews; title: The pisé house / Brian James; title: Suburban souvenir / Hermon Gill; title: The pelican / Cecil Mann; title: Going home / Myra Morris; title: Dry spell / Marjorie Barnard; title: End of an idol / Ernestine Hill; title: Kaijek the Songman / Xavier Herbert; title: Fear / H. Drake-Brockman; title: Tell us about the turkey, Jo ; Blow Carson, I say / Alan Marshall; title: The nightshift / John Morrison; title: Harvest / John K. Ewers; title: He walks home with his wife / Don Edwards; title: The enthusiastic prisoner / E.O. Schlunke; title: Seed among thorns / Dorothy Sanders; title: Dust / Gavin Casey; title: Two women / A.C. Headley; title: No one spoke / Russell J. Oakes; title: The bleeding of Irish O'Banion / James Sweeney; title: You go, Florence Nightingale! ; The man who bowled Victor Trumper / Dal Stivens; title: The three jolly foxes / Douglas Stewart; title: Drift / Peter Cowan; title: Twenty strong / Margaret Trist; title: The kid / Ken Levis; title: Hullo, Joe / Jon Cleary.