| 词条 | On the Track (short story collection) |
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| name = On the Track | title_orig = | translator = | image = | caption = | author = Henry Lawson | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = English | series = | genre = Short story collection | publisher = Angus and Robertson | release_date = 1900 | media_type = Print (hardback & paperback) | pages = 157pp | isbn = | preceded_by = Verses, Popular and Humorous | followed_by = Over the Sliprails }}On the Track (1900) is a collection of short stories by Australian poet and author Henry Lawson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1900, and features one of the author's better known stories in "Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster", as well as a number of lesser known works.[1] The collection contains nineteen stories which are mostly reprinted from a variety of newspaper and magazine sources, with several published here for the first time.[1] Contents
Critical receptionA reviewer in The Freeman's Journal (Sydney) noted that the collection is "a very representative collection of Henry Lawson's inimitable bush sketches. Many of these have appeared from time to time in various Australian journals, including the Freeman, but the collection will not suffer in popular estimation on that account, for it makes up a very interesting volume of Lawson at his best."[2] In The Evening News (Sydney) the reviewer was not so impressed: "The stories are written with all Lawson's well-known descriptive power, and one regrets that the author does not occasionally give us some different phase of bush life to the sordid side that, he is so fond of. The unlovely swaggie is not even picturesque, and he is decidedly wearisome. Lawson might, now and then strike a higher note and relieve us from the ever-haunting presence of Bill and Jim with their swags and 'nosebags.' It seems strange that one who can so well appreciate the poetry of the bush in verse persistently ignores it in prose."[3] NotesThis publication was followed by another short story collection, Over the Sliprails, also in 1900. Later that same year the two collections were combined into one volume titled On the Track, and Over the Sliprails.[1] See also
References1. ^1 2 Austlit - On the Track by Henry Lawson {{Henry Lawson}}{{DEFAULTSORT:On the Track}}2. ^"Books Up to Date", The Freeman's Journal, 5 May 1900, p22 3. ^"Recent Publications", The Evening News, 14 April 1900, p4 4. ^Project Gutenberg - On the Track by Henry Lawson 2 : Short story collections by Henry Lawson|1900 short story collections |
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