Best Australian Short Stories

These best loved stories are about people - diggers, shearers, aborigines, drovers, city dwellers;  stories about Australians from all walks of life and covering more than 100 years of history.    The early stories, with their focus on man's struggle against a harsh environment, are by the popular writers of what has been called 'the Bulletin Tradition' - Henry Lawson, A. B. Paterson, Hugh McCrae, Norman Lindsay and Frank Dalby Davison.