Such Is Life

novel by Furphy

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Such Is Life is a picaresque novel by Australian author Joseph Furphy. Written as excerpts from the diary of Tom Collins, the novel was published in 1903. It is set in the rural world of the 1880s and is rich with details of station life, conversations of bullock drivers, and philosophical reflections on chance and determinism. Furphy's other major works, Rigby's Romance and The Buln Buln and the Brolga, were developed from chapters originally intended for Such Is Life.12

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Nationalism and expansion
…wrote a large complex novel, Such Is Life (1903), describing the rural world of the 1880s. It overflows with details of station life, the conversations of bullock drivers, nationalistic sentiments, and philosophical meditations about chance and determinism.
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…wrote a large complex novel, Such Is Life (1903), describing the rural world of the 1880s. It overflows with details of station life, the conversations of bullock drivers, nationalistic sentiments, and philosophical meditations about chance and determinism.
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Joseph Furphy
…he wrote a picaresque novel, Such Is Life (1903), written as excerpts from the diary of Tom Collins. Furphy’s other major works, Rigby’s Romance (serialized 1905; published in book form, 1921) and The Buln Buln and the Brolga (published posthumously in 1948), were written from chapters cut from the original…
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…he wrote a picaresque novel, Such Is Life (1903), written as excerpts from the diary of Tom Collins. Furphy’s other major works, Rigby’s Romance (serialized 1905; published in book form, 1921) and The Buln Buln and the Brolga (published posthumously in 1948), were written from chapters cut from the original…
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