{"product_id":"2026200005086-secondhand-the-fortunes-of-richard-mahony","title":"The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: some tears along jacket spine and one tear at the back. Otherwise fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48755515621595,"sku":"2026200005086-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/17b8479f-9ce7-4451-832f-e8ef2745a144.png?v=1778221470","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200005086-secondhand-the-fortunes-of-richard-mahony","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}