The Boy in the Bush
by M. L. Skinner D. H. Lawrence
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About This Book
Jack Grant arrives in Western Australia in 1882, having been expelled from his public school and then sent down from an agricultural college. He experiences hunting, farming, gold mining, fights and his first love of women. His character is forged by the Australian landscape and its hard, no-nonsense people. From the young boy emerges a tough Lawrentian hero.Lawrence and his wife Frieda, arrived in Australia in 1922 where they met the Quaker nurse Mollie Skinner. Skinner showed Lawrence her novel, "Black Swans". Lawrence advised her to drop this book and write about the first settlers in Austr...
Chapters (82)
- THE BOY IN THE BUSH
- D. H. LAWRENCE
- M. L. SKINNER
- THOMAS SELTZER
- CONTENTS
- THE BOY IN THE BUSH
- CHAPTER I JACK ARRIVES IN AUSTRALIA I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER II THE TWIN LAMBS I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER III DRIVING TO WANDOO I
- II
- CHAPTER IV WANDOO I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER V THE LAMBS COME HOME I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- CHAPTER VI IN THE YARD I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER VII OUT BACK AND SOME LETTERS I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- CHAPTER VIII HOME FOR CHRISTMAS I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- CHAPTER IX NEW YEAR'S EVE I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER X SHADOWS BEFORE I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- CHAPTER XI BLOWS I
- II
- CHAPTER XII THE GREAT PASSING I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER XIII TOM AND JACK RIDE TOGETHER
- CHAPTER XIV JAMBOREE
- CHAPTER XV UNCLE JOHN GRANT
- CHAPTER XVI ON THE ROAD I
- II
- CHAPTER XVII AFTER TWO YEARS I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER XVIII THE GOVERNOR'S DANCE
- CHAPTER XIX THE WELCOME AT WANDOO
- CHAPTER XX THE LAST OF EASU I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER XXI LOST
- CHAPTER XXII THE FIND I
- II
- CHAPTER XXIII GOLD I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER XXIV THE OFFER TO MARY I
- II
- CHAPTER XXV TROT, TROT BACK AGAIN
- CHAPTER XXVI THE RIDER ON THE RED HORSE
- THE END
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