While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson
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"While the Billy Boils" by Henry Lawson is a collection of short stories published in 1896. This landmark Australian work gathers 52 tales of outback life, including the celebrated "The Drover's Wife." Lawson captures the harsh realities of the bush with a mix of humor, pathos, and cynicism, offering snapshots of drovers, settlers, and wanderers in remote Australia. Critics praised its variety while noting its unflinching portrayal of hardship in the back
country, where men gather around campfires to share stories while the billy boils. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922 |
|---|---|
| Title | While the Billy Boils |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/While_the_Billy_Boils_(short_story_collection) |
| Contents | An old mate of your father's -- Settling on the land -- Enter Mitchell -- Stiffner and Jim -- When the sun went down -- The man who forgot -- Hungerford -- A camp-fire yarn -- His country, after all -- A day on a selection -- That there dog o'mine -- Going blind -- Arvie Aspinall's alarm clock -- Stragglers -- The Union buries its dead -- On the edge of a plain -- In a dry season -- He'd come back -- Another of Mitchell's plans for the future -- Steelman -- Drifted back -- Remailed -- Mitchell doesn't believe in the sack -- Shooting the moon -- His father's mate -- An echo from the Old Bark School -- The shearing of the cook's dog -- "Dossing out" and "camping" -- Across the straits -- "Some day" -- "Brummy Usen" -- The drover's wife -- Steelman's pupil -- An unfinished love story -- Board and residence -- His colonial oath -- A visit of condolence -- In a wet season -- "Rats" -- Mitchell, a character sketch -- The Bush undertaker -- Our pipes -- Coming across -- The story of Malachi -- Two dogs and a fence -- Jones's alley -- Bogg of Geebung -- She wouldn't speak -- The geological spieler -- Macquarie's mate -- Baldy Thompson -- For auld lang syne -- Notes on Australianisms. |
| Credits | Geoffrey Cowling |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction |
| Subject | Australia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 7144 |
| Release Date | Dec 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Apr 28, 2022 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 950 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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