The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

✍ Scribed by Henry Handel Richardson

• Book ID: 100221879
• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company;Text, Turnaround [distributor]
• Year: 2012;2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 689 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1921921889

✦ Synopsis

Richard Mahony is a restless man. Ballarat, England, Melbourne, Europe, the bush: elsewhere is always better. Searching for a place, a meaning, a life, Mahony and his wife Mary journey from wealth to poverty, order to chaos, sanity to the asylum. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a towering novel.

This edition reproduces the text of the 1930 Heinemann edition, which gathered all three books in one volume. It includes a new introduction by Peter Craven.

Henry Handel Richardson was born in Melbourne in 1870. She was was sent to board at the Presbyterian Ladies College in 1883--an experience that provided material for her novel The Getting of Wisdom. She published her first novel, Maurice Guest , in 1908, followed by the trilogy that would become The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. Her final novel The Young Cosima appeared in 1939.

Peter Craven is one of Australia's best-known literary critics. He was a founding editor of...