Humorous stories of Henry Lawson. Henry Lawson. 2000.

For generations of readers, Henry Lawson has been the most Australian of Australia writers. His works expressed the essential qualities of a nation, and nowhere is this more evident than in his humorous stories. In this definitive collection of Lawson at his humorous best, we meet a whole gallery of characters - the driver, the swaggie, the bush philosopher, the larrikin, the digger, the confidence man - all revealing a typically Australian brand of humour.n

This new edition presents the stories accompanied by the paintings of Samuel Thomas Gill. Like Lawson, Gill had the knack of capturing the essence of a nation through a subtle examination of character types. His deceptively simple, yet sharply realised portraits of Australian life perfectly complement the dry humour of Lawson’s stories.