Author

Publication

1905 - E.W. Cole, Melbourne, Australia

Language

English

Word Count

83,250 words, Guess

Page Count

333 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC823

Description

<p><i>While the Billy Boils</i> collates <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry-lawson">Henry Lawson’s</a> most well known short stories of the 1890s, originally published in a variety of Australian and New Zealand newspapers—most prominently the Sydney <i>Bulletin</i>. Lawson presents a satirical and sometimes emotional study of frontier life in late colonial Australia, and the characters living in it.</p>

First Sentence

You remember when we hurried home from the old bush school how we were sometimes startled by a bearded apparition, who smiled kindly down on us, and whom our mother introduced, as we raked off our hats, as "An old mate of your father's on the diggings, Johnny."

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Commonwealth series (Melbourne, Vic.) -- 7

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  • While the billy boilsE.W. Cole1905-01-01
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