Joe Wilson and His Mates, Henry Lawson
Joe Wilson and His Mates, Henry Lawson
List: $15.99 | Sale: $11.20
Club: $7.99

Joe Wilson and His Mates

Author: Henry Lawson

Narrator: Denis Daly, Amy Soakes

Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/16/2021


Synopsis

oe Wilson and His Mates

By Henry Lawson

Narrated by Amy Soakes and Denis Daly

This collection was published in 1901 and contains some of Lawson's best known stories.

Most of the stories are set in the Australian bush, and feature many of Lawson's iconic characters, like squatters, swagmen and struggling selector farmers. A persistent theme is the harshness of rural life and the inevitablity of personal tragedy.

1) The Author’s Farewell to the Bushmen

2) Joe Wilson’s Courtship

3) Brighten’s Sister-In-Law

4) "Water Them Geraniums"

5) A Double Buggy at Lahey's Creek

6) The Writer Wants to say a Word

7) The Golden Graveyard

8) The Chinaman’s Ghost

9) The Loaded Dog

10) Poisonous Jimmy Gets Left

11) The Ghostly Door

12) A Wild Irishman

13) The Babies in the Bush

14) A Bush Dance

15) The Buck-Jumper

16) Jimmy Grimshaw’s Wooing

17) At Dead Dingo

18) Telling Mrs Baker

19) A Hero in Dingo-Scrubs

20) The Little World Left Behind

21) The Never-Never Country

Text prepared by Denis Daly

Audio edited by Denis Daly

Production copyright 2021 Voices of Today

Reviews

Goodreads review by Johnny

This “novel” is not the historical sailing novel I thought it would be when I picked it up. In fact, the conceit of the book is that it is a diary written by a pioneering bushman in Australia. Although there wasn’t a lot of “plot” in the sense of mystery or adventure, the first half of my eBook edit......more

Goodreads review by Ann

What's not to like... Henry Lawson!! ...although I did have to get my head around some of his racist and misogynistic statements reflecting the time this was written; although often, I suspect put by him into the mouths of others, to make a point as to their inappropriateness.......more

These four stories involving Joe Wilson, his wife Mary, son Jim and in-law James are wonderful, well written, and intrinsically Australian.......more