"Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative."
Australian writer and poet Joseph Furphy died #OTD in 1912.
He is is widely regarded as the "Father of the Australian novel". He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903), regarded as an Australian classic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Furphy
Books by Joseph Furphy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1205