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Joseph Furphy Joseph Furphy i(A25736 works by)
Also writes as: Tom Collins ; Warrigal Jack
Born: Established: 26 Sep 1843 Yering, Yarra Glen area, Yea - Eildon - Warburton area, Melbourne Outer North, Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 13 Sep 1912 Claremont, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,
Gender: Male
Heritage: Irish
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1 1 Rigby's Romance Joseph Furphy , John Derum , 2013 single work drama
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 13 no. 1 2013;
'This script is an adaptation of the novel Rigby's Romance.
1 From : Such Is Life Joseph Furphy , 2009 extract novel (Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins)
— Appears in: Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 155-163)
1 3 Such is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins Joseph Furphy , 2003 extract novel
— Appears in: Western Australian Writing : An Online Anthology 2003;
An extract from Furphy's novel Such is Life.
1 From The Schoolhouse on the Plain i "On the geodetic line, where the parish boundaries join", Joseph Furphy , 2002 extract poetry (The Schoolhouse on the Plain)
— Appears in: An Australian Treasury of Popular Verse 2002; (p. 58-59)
1 Such is Life Joseph Furphy , James Francis , 1997 extract novel (Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins)
— Appears in: 200 Years of Australian Writing : An Anthology 1997; (p. 43-50)
1 y separately published work icon A Boy of the Old Brigade : A Short Story Joseph Furphy , Kangaroo Ground : Tarcoola Press , 1996 Z820694 1996 single work short story
1 4 y separately published work icon Bushman and Bookworm: Letters of Joseph Furphy Joseph Furphy , John Barnes (editor), Lois Hoffman (editor), Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1990 Z229199 1990 selected work correspondence biography
1 Tom Collins Meets `Orion' Horne Joseph Furphy , 1988 single work short story
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , April no. 20 1988; (p. 2-3)
1 The Bible Tom Collins , 1981 single work essay
— Appears in: Joseph Furphy 1981; (p. 397-398)
1 5 y separately published work icon Joseph Furphy Joseph Furphy: Such is Life, Stories, Verse, Essays and Letters; The Portable Joseph Furphy Joseph Furphy , John Barnes (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1981 Z363521 1981 selected work novel poetry short story correspondence
1 2 Such is Life Joseph Furphy , Peter Barclay , Stuart McCreery , Ken Moffat , 1980 single work drama
1 The Lost Child Tom Collins , 1978 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Australian Stories of Horror and Suspense from the Early Days 1978; (p. 58-67)
1 16 y separately published work icon The Buln-Buln and the Brolga and Other Stories Tom Collins , Adelaide : Rigby , 1971 Z123839 1971 selected work novella short story
1 On Publishing a Novel : A Correspondence Joseph Furphy , Alfred George Stephens , 1969 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Writer in Australia : A Collection of Literary Documents, 1856-1964 1969; (p. 117-127)
1 The Lost Children Joseph Furphy , 1964 extract short story (Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins)
— Appears in: Southern Harvest : An Anthology of Australian Short Stories 1964; (p. 20-40)
1 Bush Tragedy Tom Collins , 1949 extract novel (Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins)
— Appears in: Australian Heritage : A Prose Anthology 1949; (p. 109-121)
2 7 y separately published work icon The Buln-Buln and the Brolga Tom Collins , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1948 Z969858 1948 single work novella

The Buln-buln and the Brolga is a long story that is a revised and expanded version of the second chapter of the original Such is Life. The action takes place in the township of Echuca where the narrator, Tom Collins, is waiting to meet a representative of the firm for which he works. While waiting for his associate to arrive, Collins meets a childhood friend, Fred Falkland-Pritchard, the titular buln-buln or lyrebird, so-called because of his reputation for lying. Tom also meets Barefooted Bob, the titular brolga. The three spend an evening together with Fred's wife, and the two swap yarns. Fred's yarns get taller and taller, but Bob accepts them as the truth, as Fred's wife has done throughout their marriage. Bob tells stories of violent encounters with Aboriginal people on the frontier, delivered with a bluntness that intrigues Mrs Falkland-Pritchard. The story can stand on its own as a study of an individual's perception of reality, specifically the fiction of reality or the reality of fiction. But it retains intriguing links to its original version in the typescript, made even more so by Furphy's methods of transferring sections of text during revision.

1 Backing a Colt Tom Collins , 1946 extract
— Appears in: An Australian Muster 1946; (p. 91-97)
An extract from Joseph Furphy's novel Such is Life.
1 The "Crucivle" [sic] of Truth Joseph Furphy , 1945 1945 extract novella (The Buln-Buln and the Brolga)
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 9 no. 1 1948; (p. 20-27)
1 Dicta Furphiana Joseph Furphy , 1945 single work column
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 6 no. 3 1945; (p. 42)
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