• Two of Australian author Henry Lawson are bound together in this Kindle book: Joe Wilson and His Mates & When the Billy Boils and Other Tales
About The Author
Henry Lawson
Joe Wilson and His Mates
The book is written as a pioneering bushman’s diary in Australia, including the courting rituals of the settlers gold prospectors, ghost stories and a mysterious shooting related to mistaken identity.
While The Billy Boils
Lawson's most successful prose collection, notable for its prose with the use of short, sharp Hemingway-like sentences, Lawson defined the style of Australians: dryly laconic and passionately egalitarian. Most of his work focuses on the Australian bush, and it is considered accurate description of Australian life a century ago.
About The Author
Henry Lawson (1867 –1922) was an Australian writer and, along with Banjo Paterson, is the best-known Australian fiction writer of the colonial period. He is often referred to as Australia's greatest short story writer.
He was born in New South Wales. His father was a Norwegian-born miner who went to sea at 21 and arrived in Melbourne in 1855 to join the gold rush. Lawson's parents met at the goldfields of Pipeclay (now Eurunderee New South Wales), On Henry's birth, the family surname was Anglicised and Niels became Peter Lawson. Lawson was a keen reader of Dickens and Marryat.