The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: some tears along jacket spine and one tear at the back. Otherwise fine.
A towering achievement of Australian literature, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a sweeping, three-volume epic novel that chronicles the turbulent life of an Anglo-Irish doctor navigating the raw colonial landscape of nineteenth-century Australia. Henry Handel Richardson traces Mahony's restless ambitions and psychological unraveling with unflinching psychological depth, illustrating how a man perpetually at odds with his environment — whether on the Victorian goldfields or in the drawing rooms of England — ultimately destroys himself through his own contradictions. The narrative unfolds with a grave, almost tragic solemnity, presenting the tensions between idealism and material reality, between belonging and exile, with the authority of a writer drawing on deeply personal family history. Richardson's prose is measured and precise, building an intimate portrait of a marriage, a society, and a disintegrating mind that stands as one of the great character studies in the English language. Widely regarded as a masterpiece long underappreciated outside Australia, this trilogy rewards patient readers with one of fiction's most devastating and fully realized human portraits.
Author: Henry Handel Richardson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Australian Classics
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: some tears along jacket spine and one tear at the back. Otherwise fine.
A towering achievement of Australian literature, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a sweeping, three-volume epic novel that chronicles the turbulent life of an Anglo-Irish doctor navigating the raw colonial landscape of nineteenth-century Australia. Henry Handel Richardson traces Mahony's restless ambitions and psychological unraveling with unflinching psychological depth, illustrating how a man perpetually at odds with his environment — whether on the Victorian goldfields or in the drawing rooms of England — ultimately destroys himself through his own contradictions. The narrative unfolds with a grave, almost tragic solemnity, presenting the tensions between idealism and material reality, between belonging and exile, with the authority of a writer drawing on deeply personal family history. Richardson's prose is measured and precise, building an intimate portrait of a marriage, a society, and a disintegrating mind that stands as one of the great character studies in the English language. Widely regarded as a masterpiece long underappreciated outside Australia, this trilogy rewards patient readers with one of fiction's most devastating and fully realized human portraits.