The Man Who Forgot single work   short story   humour  
  • Author:agent Henry Lawson http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/lawson-henry
Issue Details: First known date: 1893... 1893 The Man Who Forgot
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A soft-hearted shearer is deceived by a cunning swagman.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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    y separately published work icon Truth 6 August 1893 6170174 1893 newspaper issue 1893
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    y separately published work icon While the Billy Boils Henry Lawson , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1896 Z822461 1896 selected work short story Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1896 pg. 32-39
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    y separately published work icon The Country I Come From Henry Lawson , Edinburgh : William Blackwood , 1901 Z1335319 1901 selected work short story Edinburgh : William Blackwood , 1901 pg. 28-35
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    y separately published work icon Capajon : Fifty-Four Short Stories Published 1921-1933 Edward Garnett (editor), London : Jonathan Cape , 1933 Z1837076 1933 anthology short story London : Jonathan Cape , 1933 pg. 338-343
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    y separately published work icon The Herald no. 17768 27 April 1934 Z1167708 1934 newspaper issue 1934 pg. 16
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    y separately published work icon While the Billy Boils : 87 Stories from the Prose Works of Henry Lawson Henry Lawson , Hawthorn : Lloyd O'Neil , 1970 Z1215630 1970 selected work short story Includes stories from Lawson's main collections - While the Billy Boils, On the Track and Over the Sliprails. Hawthorn : Lloyd O'Neil , 1970 pg. 21 - 26 Section: First series
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    y separately published work icon Prose Works of Henry Lawson Collected Short Stories of Henry Lawson Henry Lawson , Sydney : Home Entertainment Library , 1935 Z389778 1935 selected work short story Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1982 pg. 17-21
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    y separately published work icon A Camp-Fire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 Henry Lawson , Leonard Cronin (editor), Sydney : Lansdowne , 1984 Z378657 1984 selected work poetry short story autobiography prose criticism drama biography Sydney : Lansdowne , 1984 pg. 290-292
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    y separately published work icon Henry Lawson's Mates : The Complete Stories of Henry Lawson Henry Lawson , Windsor : Budget Books Lloyd O'Neil , 1979 Z487806 1979 selected work short story autobiography humour Ringwood : Viking O'Neil , 1987 pg. 21-26
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    y separately published work icon The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Humour Michael Sharkey , Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1988 Z200257 1988 anthology poetry prose short story humour satire Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1988 pg. 52-55
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    y separately published work icon While the Billy Boils : The Original Newspaper Versions Henry Lawson , Paul Eggert (editor), Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2013 6155517 2013 selected work short story (taught in 3 units)

    'Fifty-two of Henry Lawson's stories and sketches that he had first published in newspapers and magazines from 1888 onwards were gathered in his collection While the Billy Boils (Angus & Robertson, 1896). Lawson was not responsible for their ordering and he had to give ground on their texts, especially on his idiosyncratic presentation of wordings that helped to breathe life into his characters and situations. The present edition dismantles the fait accompli of 1896 by presenting the individual items in the chronological order of their first publication and with their original newspaper texts. This will allow a new appreciation of Lawson's writing, one that is attentive to his developing powers.

    'The edition also facilitates a close study of Lawson's collaboration with the producers of the collection in 1896, in particular with his copy-editor Arthur W. Jose and publisher George Robertson. Facsimile images (available online) of the printer's copy that they prepared for While the Billy Boils supplement the edition's listing of the alterations that each of them made, revealing the textual history of each story or sketch.' (Publisher's blurb)

    Sydney : Sydney University Press , 2013
    pg. 160-168

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Louis Stone H. J. Oliver , Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1968 Z152149 1968 single work criticism
y separately published work icon Louis Stone H. J. Oliver , Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1968 Z152149 1968 single work criticism
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