The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - slightly shaky. Clean text.
A landmark of Australian literature, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a sweeping, psychologically rich trilogy that chronicles the turbulent life of an Anglo-Irish doctor navigating the raw colonial world of nineteenth-century Australia. Richardson traces Mahony's restless journey from the goldfields of Ballarat through periods of prosperity and ruin, painting an unflinching portrait of a man perpetually at war with his environment, his ambitions, and his own fractured identity. The novel's tone is at once compassionate and unflinching, presenting Mahony's gradual psychological deterioration with a clinical precision that anticipates the modernist tradition. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels written in the English language, the trilogy argues powerfully that the immigrant experience is not merely one of physical displacement but of a deeper, irreconcilable spiritual exile. Richardson's prose is dense, immersive, and deeply humane, making this an essential work for any serious reader of literary fiction.
Author: Henry Handel Richardson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1946, William Heinemann Ltd
Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - slightly shaky. Clean text.
A landmark of Australian literature, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a sweeping, psychologically rich trilogy that chronicles the turbulent life of an Anglo-Irish doctor navigating the raw colonial world of nineteenth-century Australia. Richardson traces Mahony's restless journey from the goldfields of Ballarat through periods of prosperity and ruin, painting an unflinching portrait of a man perpetually at war with his environment, his ambitions, and his own fractured identity. The novel's tone is at once compassionate and unflinching, presenting Mahony's gradual psychological deterioration with a clinical precision that anticipates the modernist tradition. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels written in the English language, the trilogy argues powerfully that the immigrant experience is not merely one of physical displacement but of a deeper, irreconcilable spiritual exile. Richardson's prose is dense, immersive, and deeply humane, making this an essential work for any serious reader of literary fiction.