Digger Smith
by C. J. Dennis
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About This Book
"Digger Smith" is the third verse-novel by the great early Twentieth century Australian writer, C.J. Dennis. It follows Dennis's best-sellers, "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke", and "The Moods of Ginger Mick", and is also followed by the final book in the sequence, "Rose of Spadgers". All four books tell the connected stories of working class men and women, initially before the start of World War I, and then during World War I, at Gallipoli, with the last two dealing with the return of the Aussie veterans, the civilians waiting on the home-front, and the women and widows of the soldiers kille...
Chapters (34)(click to expand)
- DIGGER SMITH
- C. J. Dennis
- Illustrated by
- Hal Gye
- 1918 (rev. 1919)
- TO THE A.I.F.
- CONTENTS
- I. BEFORE THE WAR
- Before the War
- II. DUMMY BRIDGE
- Dummy Bridge
- III. DAD
- Dad
- IV. DIGGER SMITH
- Digger Smith
- V. WEST
- West
- VI. OVER THE FENCE
- Over the Fence
- VII. A DIGGER'S TALE
- A Digger's Tale
- VIII. JIM'S GIRL
- Jim's Girl
- IX. THE BOYS OUT THERE
- The Boys Out There
- X. HALF A MAN
- Half a Man
- XI. SAWIN' WOOD
- Sawin' Wood
- XII. JIM
- Jim
- XIII. A SQUARE DEAL
- A Square Deal
- GLOSSARY
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