The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Set against the raw, unforgiving landscape of nineteenth-century Australia, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony chronicles the turbulent life of Richard Mahony — an Irish-born doctor and merchant who arrives on the Victorian goldfields during the great gold rush, only to find himself trapped in a lifelong struggle between ambition, restlessness, and the search for belonging. From the muddy chaos of Ballarat to the drawing rooms of Melbourne and back to the windswept Australian bush, this sweeping trilogy traces Mahony's rise and fall with unflinching emotional honesty, mapping his fractured relationships, professional failures, and creeping mental deterioration against the backdrop of a young colony finding its own identity. Henry Handel Richardson — the pen name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson — is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest novelists, and this monumental work stands as her masterpiece. Written with the psychological precision of a European realist and the raw nerve of a deeply personal narrative (Richardson drew heavily from her own father's life), the trilogy argues that the colonial experience is not one of triumph but of profound displacement and loss. Rich in period detail, morally complex, and written in a style that balances Victorian grandeur with modernist interiority, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony remains an essential — and devastatingly human — portrait of a man, and a nation, at odds with itself.
Author: Henry Handel Richardson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Set against the raw, unforgiving landscape of nineteenth-century Australia, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony chronicles the turbulent life of Richard Mahony — an Irish-born doctor and merchant who arrives on the Victorian goldfields during the great gold rush, only to find himself trapped in a lifelong struggle between ambition, restlessness, and the search for belonging. From the muddy chaos of Ballarat to the drawing rooms of Melbourne and back to the windswept Australian bush, this sweeping trilogy traces Mahony's rise and fall with unflinching emotional honesty, mapping his fractured relationships, professional failures, and creeping mental deterioration against the backdrop of a young colony finding its own identity. Henry Handel Richardson — the pen name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson — is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest novelists, and this monumental work stands as her masterpiece. Written with the psychological precision of a European realist and the raw nerve of a deeply personal narrative (Richardson drew heavily from her own father's life), the trilogy argues that the colonial experience is not one of triumph but of profound displacement and loss. Rich in period detail, morally complex, and written in a style that balances Victorian grandeur with modernist interiority, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony remains an essential — and devastatingly human — portrait of a man, and a nation, at odds with itself.