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Category : Bulletin (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Henry Lawson: a Chronological Checklist of His Contributions to "The Bulletin", 1887-1924
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bulletin (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
A Chronological Checklist of Henry Lawson's Contributions to the Bulletin (1887-1927)
Author: Henry and Banjo
Author: James KnightPublisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733633625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The fascinating lives and turbulent times of Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson - the two men who wrote Australia's story. Today most of us know that Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson were famous writers. We know about Matilda, Clancy of the Overflow and the Man from Snowy River; The Drover's Wife, While the Billy Boils and Joe Wilson and his mates, but little else. Here, in a compelling and engaging work, James Knight brings Henry and Banjo's own stories to life. And there is much to tell. Both were country born, just three years and three hundred kilometres apart, Henry on the goldfields of Grenfell and Banjo on a property near Orange, but their paths to literary immortality took very different routes - indeed at times their lives were ones of savage and all too tragic contrasts. Banjo, born into a life of comparative privilege, would rise from country boy to Sydney Grammar student, solicitor, journalist, war correspondent and revered man about town. Henry's formal education only began when his feminist mother finally won her battle for a local school but illness and subsequent deafness would make continuing his lessons difficult, seeing him find work as a labourer, a coach painter and a journalist, all the while wrestling with poverty, alcoholism and mental illness. Both men would become household names during their lifetimes. Both would have regrets. Henry and Banjo details two incredibly fascinating lives and delves into the famous (and not so famous) writings of the two men who had the power to influence and change Australia.
Henry Lawson Collected Verse
Author: Henry LawsonTo Hell & High Water
Author: Gregory BryanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1921941839
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
To Hell and High Water tells the story of the quest of two brothers to conquer the extreme conditions of outback Australia, recreating the Bourke to Hungerford `tramp' that influenced some of Australian literary legend Henry Lawson's greatest works. The book is part autobiography and part biography. It is an autobiography of the author's experiences with his brother overcoming significant obstacles to achieve his dream of walking in Lawson's footsteps. It paints a vivid picture of some of Australia's most remote country, the challenges and dangers, the heat, the distance, mosquitoes, blisters and thirst. At the same time it blends in the biography of Henry Lawson's captivating life including his marriage, struggles with alcoholism, his suicide attempt, influences upon his writing and his ideals of mateship. Extracts of Lawson's own writing have been carefully selected and woven into the narrative in a manner that draws parallels between the two experiences and offers fresh insights into his life.
Collected Verse: 1901-1909
Author: Henry LawsonPublisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Letters, 1890-1922
Author: Henry LawsonPublisher: Angus & Robertson
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils
Author: Paul EggertPublisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 1743320140
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as he struggled to forge a career, writing short stories and sketches for the newspapers. Lawson's famous collection came out at a decisive moment for the development of a fully professional Australian literary publishing industry, then in its infancy in Sydney. The volume's editing, design and production were collaborative events that changed the feel and nature of Lawson's writing. He had to give ground on his texts and their sequencing. The collection went on to be reprinted and repackaged countless times. Its production and reception histories act like a geological cross-section, revealing the contours of successive cultural formations in Australia. In unravelling the life of Lawson's classic work Eggert's book-historical approach challenges and clarifies established understandings of crucial moments in Australian literary history and of Lawson himself
Collected Verse: 1910-1922
Author: Henry LawsonPublisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Author: Henry Lawson