The Getting Of Wisdom

Henry Handel Richardson, Dr. Germaine Greer

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Text Publishing Company
22 August 2012

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Australian Fiction

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Another wonderful title added to the Text Classics range! You might remember the charming movie from the 1980s which was fairly true to the book, but reading will give you more insight into the characters. Laura Rambotham, with her homemade dresses and rustic ways, is sent to an exclusive girls' school. Eager to be accepted, she is ridiculed and belittled for her lack of worldliness, and as many a youngster has done, she foregoes her better nature to fall in with the crowd around her. All the pain and confusion of growing up, of getting wisdom, come hard, but this novel abounds in a lightness of touch that allows the reader to sympathise, and eventually to cheer for Laura, as she finds her own way. Lindy

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One of the most memorable characters in Australian fiction, Laura Rambotham, aged twelve, enters the portals of an exclusive girls' school eager to be accepted. But this precocious country girl is snubbed and ridiculed by her fellow students, who are richer, more attractive and more adept at dealing with life's hypocrisies. The Getting of Wisdom, a wicked and satirical novel on the pain and confusion of growing up, first appeared in 1910. A century later it has lost none of its bite. In her splendid introduction Germaine Greer describes this classic as 'Richardson's only great book precisely because the subject is, like the rest of us, ordinary, and therefore deeply important'.

By: Henry Handel Richardson
Introduction by: Dr. Germaine Greer
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 203g
ISBN: 9781922079404
ISBN 10: 1922079405
Publication Date: 22 August 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Getting Of Wisdom

Another wonderful title added to the Text Classics range! You might remember the charming movie from the 1980s which was fairly true to the book, but reading will give you more insight into the characters. Laura Rambotham, with her homemade dresses and rustic ways, is sent to an exclusive girls' school. Eager to be accepted, she is ridiculed and belittled for her lack of worldliness, and as many a youngster has done, she foregoes her better nature to fall in with the crowd around her. All the pain and confusion of growing up, of getting wisdom, come hard, but this novel abounds in a lightness of touch that allows the reader to sympathise, and eventually to cheer for Laura, as she finds her own way. Lindy

`A gorgeous coming-of-age story that is both charming and deeply moving.' * Guardian *