Below and on Top

Below and on Top

Edward Dyson

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Format: paperback
148 pages
ISBN: 9781920897598
Publication: 01 Jan 2006
Series: SUP Classics
Publisher: Sydney University Press

First published in 1898, Below and On Top captures life in the Australian bush, focusing on a detailed portrait of mining at the turn of the century. Illustrating the shift among writers in the colony towards a consciously Australian outlook from the late 1890s, this collection also includes Dyson’s renowned story ‘A Golden Shanty’, which featured as the title piece in The Bulletin’s 1889 Christmas anthology.


Tags: Australia, Australian classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary, Classics, Edward Dyson, FICTION, Professional and scholarly, Sydney University Press

Edward George Dyson (1865-1931) was a writer based in, and writing about, the Victorian goldfields. He contributed prose and poetry to the Bulletin and other publications of the time.

Preface
Of the true endeavour

  1. Below and on top
  2. A Sabbath morn at Waddy
  3. The trucker’s dream
  4. The fossickers
  5. At the yards
  6. A visit to Scrubby Gully
  7. A golden shanty
  8. Hebe of Grasstree
  9. A zealot in labour
  10. The washerwoman of Jacker’s Flat
  11. Dead man’s load
  12. After the accident
  13. Mr and Mrs Sin Fat
  14. An incident at the Old Pioneer
  15. A vain sacrifice
  16. Glover’s little joke
  17. A child of nature
  18. The whim boy
  19. Spicer’s courtship
  20. The conquering bush
  21. The elopement of Mrs. Peters
  22. One night
  23. His bad luck
Format: paperback
Size: 210 x 148 mm
Pages: 148
Copyright: 2004
ISBN: 9781920897598
Publication: 01 Jan 2006
Series: SUP Classics
148 pages