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Title	:	Fortunes of Richard Mahony (The Fortunes of Richard Mahony #1-3)
Author	:	Henry Handel Richardson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Norwood Editions
Pages	:	Pages: 197 pages
Published	:	(first published 1930)
Categories	:	Classics. Cultural. Australia. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

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Set in Australia during the gold-mining boom, this remarkable trilogy is one of the classics of Australian literature.
Henry Handel Richardson’s great literary achievement, comprising the novels Australia Felix, The Way Home and Ultima Thule, weaves together many themes. Richard Mahony, despite finding initial contentment with his wife Mary, becomes increasingly dissatified with his ordered life. His restlessness is not understood by Mary, who has to endure the constant shattering of her security as Richard desperately attempts to free himself; his attempts finally plunge them into poverty. In the figure of Richard Mahony, Richardson captures the soul of the emigrant, ever restless, ever searching for some equilibrium, yet never really able to settle anywhere. Richard’s search, though, is also the more universal one for a meaning that will validate and give purpose to his existence.

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Original Title:	The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
ISBN:	0848259637 (ISBN13: 9780848259631)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Fortunes of Richard Mahony #1-3
Setting:	Australia

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One of my favourites, always ready to read again.

Richardson was the best Australian writer of her generation, there's no doubt about it. (Of course, in a country where many people did not have the luxury of making a career as writing, due to class, race, and even - despite Richardson's success - gender, we must remember all those coulda-beens who were deposed by the iron first of majority rule. But that's another story entirely.)Born in 1870, Richardson's was really only the third generation of native-born (colonial) Australians. The first

LOVED this book. Absolutely unputdownable

Warning: plot spoilers. When your country has a tiny population, like Australia's, authors often have to symbolize more than one thing. Richardson, for instance, is Australia's Joyce (insofar as she wrote one of the great Australian young person comes of age novel). She is Australia's Eliot; not only did she, like George, give herself a 'man's' name; she also knew far more about 19th century intellectual life than most people of her circle would have known, and put that to good work in her

I read this book shortly after the birth of my second child (who turns 29 in about six weeks time). It was on the syllabus for a university course I was doing at the time. My enduring memory is sitting in bed at 2.00 am, reading while feeding the baby, with my tears falling onto his head. And then, continuing to read, well after the baby was asleep again, because I couldn't put it down. An epic book.

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a masterpiece, a great novel. Reading it was one of the most fulfilling literary experiences Ive ever had.Angela Meyer, LiteraryMindedMore than any other novel in our literature, more than Voss, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony deserves the accolade of the Great Australian Novel it is a mighty and moving work, this bursting at the seams anti-epic to the muse of a vanity which sees every golden bowl broken and every silver cord loosed.Peter Craven

It takes a perverse type of courage to write a 900 page novel about such an obstinate and unlikeable man. The three books tell the repeating cycle of Richard Mahony's attempts to settle and find happiness in various towns in Australia and England. Each time he disastrously upheaves his family, plunging them into more financial peril, he ignores all the advice and experience of those around him in order to make the same mistakes yet again.The incredible frustration of this pattern is only