The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories Publication Date: February 25, 1993Unknown to many readers in the United States, New Zealand enjoys a rich tradition of short fiction dating back well into the nineteenth-century.Now there is a book that brings together a wide range of these marvelous tales in one handsome, compact volume.The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories brings together the new and the old, the traditional and the experimental.Nineteenth-century writing is represented by authors as Henry Lawson, Lady Barker, Clara Cheeseman and G.B. Lancaster, some of whose stories are collected here for the first time.In more re...