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Such Is Life by FURPHY JOSEPH DEVLIN GLASS FRANCES EADEN ROBI
Category: Fiction | Series: Halstead Classics Ser.
Annotated edition of a classic Australian novel, first published in 1903. Provides the social and historical background necessary to fully appreciate the novel and the context for the many literary allusions employed by the author. The annotaters also help the reader to unravel the intricacies of plot t ...Show more
Such Is Life by Joseph Joseph Furphy
Category: Classics
Scientifically, such a contingency can never have befallen of itself. According to one theory of the Universe, the momentum of Original Impress has been tending toward this far-off, divine event ever since a scrap of fire-mist flew from the solar centre to form our planet. Not this event alone, of cours ...Show more
Such is Life by Joseph Furphy
Category: Fiction | Series: Classic Australian Works
Is Furphy's great novel first published in 1903, and signalled the end of the "colonial romance" by its realistic portrayal of Australian rural life.
Such is Life by Joseph Furphy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
A classic of the Australian outback, Such Is Life is the farcical, tragic reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue. As Tom drives his team across the plains of the Riverina and northern Victoria, he gets entangled in the fate of others like Rory O'Halloran, the two Alfs (Nosey and Warrigal) a ...Show more
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