About Joseph Furphy
Joseph Furphy was an Australian author and poet. He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903), regarded as an Australian classic. National Library of Australia. — this is the first article published in The Bulletin by Furphy, under the pseudonym "Warrigal Jack" Furphy papers (State Library of New South Wales). Such is Life has been described as Australia's Moby Dick because, like Melville's book, it was neglected for thirty or forty years before being discovered as a classic.
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