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Rigby'S Romance (Mint Editions)
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ISBN13:
9781513291123
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Rigby's Romance (1921) is a novel by Joseph Furphy. Written under his pseudonym "Tom Collins," Rigby's Romance is a sequel of sorts to Such is Life, a unique and challenging story that took decades to achieve a proper audience. Earning comparisons to the works of Melville and Twain, Furphy's novel is considered a landmark of Australian literature. "Just as a bale of wool is dumped, by hydraulic pressure, to less than half its normal size, I scientifically compressed something like twenty-four hours' sleep into the interval between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. Then a touch of what you call dyspepsia and I call laziness, kept me debating with myself for another swift-running hour." Between such beguiling narration and lively conversations with the characters he meets on his travels through the Australian outback, Tom Collins presents himself as a philosophizing everyman, a prototype of such characters as Joyce's Leopold Bloom and Beckett's Molloy. Journeying in search of his friend Jefferson Rigby, a gentleman and adventurer like himself, Collins reflects on their history together and longs for his company. When the two meet up, they engage in a long discussion on politics and the nature of humanity, touching on topics as strange and diverse as Australia's legendary wildlife. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Joseph Furphy's Rigby's Romance is a classic work of Australian literature reimagined for modern readers.
- | Author: Joseph Furphy
- | Publisher: Mint Editions
- | Publication Date: June 08, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 190 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1513291122
- | ISBN-13: 9781513291123
- Author:
- Joseph Furphy
- Publisher:
- Mint Editions
- Publication Date:
- June 08, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 190 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1513291122
- ISBN-13:
- 9781513291123