Such Is Life

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Times House
Publisher Place: Kensington, Sydney
Publisher Year: 1987
Edition: Reprint

Description: 371 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "Such Is Life cannot be it has to be read. And when it has been read it will be read again for the pleasure that its human greatness and its subtle craftsmanship give. "First published in 1903, this book is an Australian classic whose stature has grown with the years, whose intricacies and strength have been the subject of endless discussions and literary essays. Tom Collins (who was Joseph Furphy) is widely held to be the greatest and most individual of Australian writers - partly, perhaps, because his ideals are those which all true democrats most resolutely cherish. "Such Is Life, described by its author himself as of temper democratic; bias, offensively Australian, is not as other novels; and in stressing its Australian core we must not forget that it is also unique in English literature. The authors genius soars above accepted rules and forms, creating in rare and beautiful language a work that is all of life as he knew it. "No less great as a man than as a writer, Tom Collins wrote with the complete sincerity of one whose independence of mind and essential honesty made him discard all forms of sham. Wit, shrewd observation and delicious humour are blended in this richly entertaining book to give an illuminating picture of humanity and of Australia."

ISBN: 0858357038