Classic Australian Short StoriesHenrietta Drake-Brockman This is a welcome reissue of a classic selection of Australian short stories, first published half a century ago. The anthology includes fifty-two stories written by forty-eight leading writers. Key authors include Henry Lawson, `Steele Rudd', Henry Handel Richardson, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Alan Marshall, and Jon Cleary. |
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ERNEST FAVENC 18451908 | 19 |
John Prices Bar of Steel from Tales of the Old Regime 1897 224 | 36 |
RUSSELL J OAKES 190952 | 52 |
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