The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

Name: The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
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Henry Handel Richardson, Peter Craven

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Text Publishing Company
01 May 2012

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Australian Fiction

He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all…deep down in him, he knew, was an enormous residue of vitality…It was like a buried treasure, jealously kept for the event of his one day catching up with life: not the bare scramble for a living that here went by that name, but Life with a capital L.

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.

By: Henry Handel Richardson
Introduction by: Peter Craven
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 55mm
Weight: 725g
ISBN: 9781921922282
ISBN 10: 1921922281
Publication Date: 01 May 2012
Audience: General/trade , General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

`More 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 'The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a masterpiece, a great novel. Reading it was one of the most fulfilling literary experiences I've ever had.' -- Angela Meyer, LiteraryMinded