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 of Joseph Furphywich are Such 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.
About the author
Joseph Furphy (26 September 1843 13 September 1912) is widely regarded as the ‘Father of the Australian novel’. He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903), regarded as an Australian classic.