All That Swagger

All that Swagger (1936) is a family saga novel by Australian writer Miles Franklin.

Story outline
The novel follows the fortunes of a pioneering family, the Delacys, in the Murrumbidgee River area across 100 years and four generations.

Critical reception
In The Telegraph (Brisbane) a reviewer noted: "The story is enriched with a mass of incident, much of it amusing, and much of it pregnant with drama. It would have gained in style and in coherence if the blue pencil had been applied here and there, but there is enough that is wholly admirable to justify its inclusion among the Australian novels that matter."

The Sydney Morning Herald was very impressed with the book: "She is to be congratulated upon both the breadth and height of her achievement, she has produced a work of integrity, peopled with characters which are not giants or satyrs, but endearing humans, lit with the never-guttering flame of passionate idealism and an exultant devotion to the soil and soul of Australia."