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Richard Mahony comes to Australia for one reason only: to make his fortune in gold. There, he finds it difficult to fit in with the hard-drinking, working class crowd. When an attempt to open a general store fails miserably, Richard follows the advice of his wife Polly and pursues medicine instead. Australia Felix is a novel by Henry Handel Richardson.

The Getting of Wisdom (1910) is a novel by Henry Handel Richardson. Based on her experiences at Melbourne's Presbyterian Ladies' College, The Getting of Wisdom is a coming-of-age novel aimed at a young audience. Engaged with such themes as grief, bullying, and peer-pressure, Richardson's novel is a powerful story of a young girl finding her way in the world. An instant bestseller, the novel has never gone out of print. "Laura went into her own...

The Way Home (1925) is a novel by Henry Handel Richardson. Based on the life of her parents, The Way Home is the second in a trilogy of novels later published as The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930). The trilogy has earned praise from countless authors and critics for its startling depictions of a man's decline due to mental illness and the lengths to which his wife must go to care for their young family. "In this pleasant spot Richard Mahony...

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Richard Mahony comes to Australia for one reason only: to make his fortune in gold. There, he finds it difficult to fit in with the hard-drinking, working class crowd. As his business ventures begin to succeed, Mahony looks for other ways to focus his time and money. The Way Home is a novel by Henry Handel Richardson.

Precociously intelligent at a young age, Laura Tweedle Rambotham causes her widowed mother no shortage of frustration. At twelve, she is sent to a boarding school in Melbourne, where she finds herself fearing humiliation and ridicule at the hands of her wealthier classmates. The Getting of Wisdom is a coming-of-age novel by Henry Handel Richardson.

Richard Mahony comes to Australia for one reason only: to make his fortune in gold. There, he finds it difficult to fit in with the hard-drinking, working class crowd. When an attempt to open a general store fails miserably, Richard follows the advice of his wife Polly and pursues medicine instead. Australia Felix is a novel by Henry Handel Richardson.

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 Australia's most significant nineteenth-century work. It tells the story of Richard Mahony, loosely based on the author's own father, and his rise and tragic fall in Australia's gold rush.All three volumes - Australia Felix, The W...

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Cuffy Mahony is a young boy in country Victoria in the late nineteenth century. He lost his father just under a year ago, and his mother is feeling the heat a little, both in looking after him and his little sister Luce, and in maintaining her job as the village postmistress. But they manage as best they can, with the help of their live-in maid Bowey.Mary Mahony struggles proudly to keep up the standards set when her husband Richard was alive....

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 Australia's most significant nineteenth-century work. It tells the story of Richard Mahony, loosely based on the author's own father, and his rise and tragic fall in Australia's gold rush.All three volumes - Australia Felix, The W...

The Getting of Wisdom is a novel by Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson. It was first published in 1910, and has almost always been in print ever since. Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off family which later fell on hard times. The author's family lived in various Victorian towns and from the age of 13 to 17 Richardson attended boarding ...

Australia FelixThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high qual...