Such Is Life
- Author Tom Collins
- Narrator Gregory Dwyer
- Publisher Gregory Dwyer
- Publish Date 3 December 2024
- Run Time 16 hours and 35 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Historical fiction.
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What to expect
This work is a collection of observations by the fictional narrator (Tom Collins) as he travels around the countryside of southern New South Wales and Victoria in the 1880s.
This tale provides insight into the stories and hardships of rural dwellers in Australia in the latter half of the nineteenth century, as well as the narrator’s own philosophy of life.
The original huge manuscript (1897) of Such Is Life, Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, was sent to A. G. Stephens of the Bulletin. Stephens realised the merit of the text but knew it was impracticable to publish, so returned it to Furphy. Parts of the text were released in various forms, but the first complete edition was not published until 1946. Joseph Furphy, however, had died at Claremont on 13th of September 1912.
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