Best Australian Short Stories

The outer archives are busy

by Douglas, and Davis, Beatrice (editors) Stewart

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Let Australia's greatest writers take you on a journey through time to the Australian landscape of outback living, romance and dramaThese best loved stories are about people - diggers, shearers, aborigines, drovers, city dwellers; stories about Australians from all walks of life and covering more than 100 years of history. The early stories, with their focus on man's struggle against a harsh environment, are by the popular writers of what has been called 'the Bulletin Tradition' - Henry Lawson, A. B. Paterson, Hugh McCrae, Norman Lindsay and Frank Dalby Davison.

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