Essential Novelists - Joseph Furphy

Essential Novelists - Joseph Furphy

Author: Joseph Furphy

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2020-05-09

Total Pages: 813

ISBN-13: 3967991792

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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofJoseph Furphywich areSuch is Life and Rigby's Romance. Joseph Furphy novels combine an acute sense of local Australian life and colour with the eclectic philosophy and literary ideas of a self-taught workingman. Novels selected for this book: - Such is Life. - Rigby's Romance. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.


Such Is Life

Such Is Life

Author: Joseph Furphy

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2023-05-10

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13:

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Such Is Life is an Australian novel written by Joseph Furphy under a pseudonym of “Tom Collins” and published in 1903. It purports to be a series of diary entries by the author, selected at approximately one-month intervals during late 1883 and early 1884. “Tom Collins” travels rural New South Wales and Victoria, interacting and talking at length with a variety of characters including the drivers of bullock-teams, itinerant swagmen, boundary riders, and squatters (the owners of large rural properties). The novel is full of entertaining and sometimes melancholy incidents mixed with the philosophical ramblings of the author and his frequent quotations from Shakespeare and poetry. Its depictions of the Australian bush, the rural lifestyle, and the depredations of drought are vivid. Furphy is sometimes called the “Father of the Australian Novel,” and Such Is Life is considered a classic of Australian literature.


The Furphy Anthology 2020

The Furphy Anthology 2020

Author: The Furphy Literary Awards

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781743797686

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Joseph Furphy wrote the Australian literary classic, Such is Life, in 1903, under the pen name of 'Tom Collins', slang for 'a tall story'. With its unreliable narrator travelling the countryside and telling the stories of the people he meets, the alias was certainly appropriate. His brother John, a blacksmith, created agricultural implements in Shepparton, most notably the water carts used by Australian troops during the First World War. Around these carts, stories were told, legs were pulled, rumours gathered momentum, and the term 'furphy' became part of the Australian lexicon. The Furphy Literary Award, established in 1992, became a national competition for the first time in 2020. Over 800 writers - from the established and experienced to the fresh first-timers - took up the challenge to tackle its topic of 'Australian Life'. The Furphy Anthology 2020 features the sixteen short stories judged to be the best of the best in this year's competition. This anthology includes well-known writers such as Cate Kennedy, Jenni Marazaki, Mira Robertson, Roby Todd and Jean Flynn, and emerging writers, including Ya Reeves, Thomas MacAllister, Luke Martin and Sue Osborne. They draw on their Australian experience. They've written about huge Murray cod and a dancing neighbour, naval tragedies and buck's night shenanigans, old bush tailors and beekeepers, a city rendezvous and catastrophic bushfires, an incident on a school bus and a Vietnam veteran who paints to find peace. And more. Who doesn't love a story - or a furphy, perhaps?


The World Book Encyclopedia

The World Book Encyclopedia

Author: World Book, Inc

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 1130

ISBN-13:

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The 'World Book Encyclopedia' was first published in 1917 as an 8-volume set. The encyclopedia has been expanded many times through the years and now has 22 volumes. This edition contains 2900 new or revised articles, 200 new or revised maps, 225 new photos, 212 new tables and charts, and 4890 pages are revised.


Australia's Writers

Australia's Writers

Author: Graeme Kinross-Smith

Publisher: Melbourne : Nelson

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 360

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An account of more than fifty of Australia's most important authors, poets and dramatists - They range from the convict writers to major contemprarary writers.


Friends and Rivals

Friends and Rivals

Author: Brenda Niall

Publisher: Text Publishing

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1925923215

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The story of four remarkable women traversing the literary landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia, from one of our nation's most eminent historians.


The Australian Experience

The Australian Experience

Author: William Stanley Ramson

Publisher: Canberra : Australian National University

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Marcus Clarke - Rolf Boldrewood - Norman Lindsay - Christina Stead - Martin Boyd - Randolph Stow - Patrick White - Thomas Keneally - Henry Handel Richardson.