The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
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The Fortunes of Richard Mahony deserves the accolade of the Great Australian Novel - Peter CravenA superb, sprawling trilogy of a family fortune won and lost in gold-rush Australia. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is Australias most significant nineteenth-century work. It tells the story of Richard Mahony, loosely based on the authors own father, and his rise and tragic fall in Australias gold rush.All three volumes - Australia Felix, The Way Home and Ultima Thule - are included here. The trilogy stands as one of the great portraits of the Australian canon - and a vivid depiction of the migrant experience.A work of huge ambition, power, pity and unflinching honesty - The AgeThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony is an all but lost continent of a book. It is a novel about poverty and worldly failure, and the grind and nightmare of a life that is ruled by money, which does its best to ride roughshod over every impulse towards simplicity and delicacy and truth. It is a book written in defiance of materialism and complacency, full of hatred of the vision of Australia summed up by James McAuleys words: The people are kindly with nothing inside them. - Sydney Morning HeraldThe 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, LiteraryMindedOne of the greatest novels in the English language. - William HeinemannMore 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 CravenAbout the authorHenry Handel Richardson was the pen-name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, who was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1870. Her father was a medical graduate of Edinburgh University, and her mother was the daughter of a Lei
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