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      Fortunes of Richard Mahony

      by Henry Handel Richardson
      Published
      Feb 1982
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      941
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      A superb, sprawling trilogy of a family fortune won and lost in gold-rush Australia: an Australian classic.


      The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is Australia's most significant nineteenth-century novel. 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.


      Despite a happy marriage and children, Irish migrant Richard Mahony struggles to quell his growing restlessness, with tragic consequences. 


      All three volumes - Australia Felix, The Way Home and Ultime Thule - are included here. The trilogy stands as one of the great portraits of the Australian canon - and a vivid depiction of the migrant experience.


      'The Fortunes of Richard Mahony deserves the accolade of the Great Australian Novel' - Peter Craven 


      'A work of huge ambition, power, pity and unflinching honesty' - The Age

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      Jul 1999 Penguin (UK) ISBN 014043710X
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      First Edition Feb 1982 Penguin (Australia) ISBN 0140033386
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