While the Billy Boils written by Henry Lawson is considered to be his most successful prose collection. It includes some of the best stories''The Drover's Wife'', ''On the Edge of a Plain'' and''The Bush Undertaker''. Each story in this collection reflects hardship, happiness, mystery, and the tragedy of ordinary human beings. Due to Lawson's unique writing style and simplicity this work remains to be one of the great classics of Australian literature.