The Life of Such is Life
Osborne, Roger![The Life of Such is Life](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/383/38397074/CHSBZCOP0338397074.jpg)
Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy's Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history reveal about Australian cultural life?
From Furphy's handwritten manuscript through numerous editions, a controversial abridgement for the British market (condemned by A.D. Hope as a "mutilation"), and periods of obscurity and rediscovery, the text has...