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While the Billy Boils

Henry Lawson

1905218 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1905
first published
  • 2005IndyPublish.com · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9781414237596
  • 2007Dodo Press · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9781406536171
  • 2007BiblioBazaar · 254 pages · ENGISBN 9781426488665
  • 2007BiblioBazaar · 278 pages · ENGISBN 9781426489242
  • 2006IndyPublish.com · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9781421993782
  • 2006IndyPublish.com · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9781421993959
  • 2006Hard Press · 218 pages · ENGISBN 9781406935479
  • 2003IndyPublish.com · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9781414203195

While the Billy Boils collates Henry Lawson’s most well known short stories of the 1890s, originally published in a variety of Australian and New Zealand newspapers—most prominently the Sydney Bulletin . Lawson presents a satirical and sometimes emotional study of frontier life in late colonial Australia, and the characters living in it.

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