Schlunke e o (2 Ergebnisse)

[8]+240pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1955. Octavo, [vi], 214 pages. Papered boards slightly rubbed; top edge lightly foxed; leading edge slightly scratched; a very good copy with the very good dustwrapper (lightly worn, foxed and sunned and with two small closed tears). A collection of 21 unsentimental short stories of rural Australia. 'Schlunke's life, like his range as a writer, was virtually confined to the wheat and sheep country of the Riverina, its towns and its people. He described the taciturn farmers and farm labourers (especially those of the sober-minded German community), the pastors, schoolteachers, bank managers, stock-and-station agents and the womenfolk with a gentle, dry and mildly satirical humour. A number of his stories were about Italian prisoners of war who worked as farm hands during World War II. He published two collections of stories, "The Man in the Silo" (Sydney, 1955) and "The Village Hampden" (Sydney, 1958)' (Australian Dictionary of Biography).…