The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

Author: Henry Handel Richardson

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 918

ISBN-13: 1742699278

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

Maurice Guest
Maurice Guest

Author: Henry Handel Richardson

Publisher: IndyPublish.com

Published: 1908

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13:

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1922. The Australian author, Henry Handel Richardson's (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson), is best remembered for The Fortunes of Richard Mahony trilogy. Her novel, Maurice Guest, plays out the history of Maurice and Louise against the background of the musical life in Leipzig, of which she has intimate knowledge, having studied music there herself. The other figures in the drama, Madeleine, Krafft, Ephie, Schwarz's wife, landladies and musical students, are inevitably pieces in the principal game, and yet are never deliberately so placed there by the author in order to assist the final catastrophe. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Myself When Young
Myself When Young

Author: Henry Handel Richardson

Publisher: Text Publishing

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1925773957

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The unfinished autobiography of one of the great Australian novelists—Henry Handel Richardson, the pen name of Ethel F. Lindesay Robertson. From the author of The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney and The Getting of Wisdom, comes this lively and revealing self-portrait of the artist as a young woman.

Friends and Rivals
Friends and Rivals

Author: Brenda Niall

Publisher: Text Publishing

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1925923215

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The story of four remarkable women traversing the literary landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia, from one of our nation's most eminent historians.

The Secret River
The Secret River

Author: Kate Grenville

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1459620038

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'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a de...

My Brilliant Career
My Brilliant Career

Author: Miles Franklin

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2025-01-30

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1802065962

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Miles Franklin’s debut novel follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn – closely modelled on Franklin herself – as she fights to break free of restrictive bush life. Growing up on her parents’ outback farm, Sybylla is desperate to read, write, sing and achieve great things. Yet her aspirations for a ‘brilliant career’ are persistently thwarted, first by the arduous demands of rural family life, and later by the shackles of a proposed conventional marriage to the wealthy Harold Beecham. With only her brilliant, conflicted mind to guide her, Sybylla is forced to define a life on her own terms. My Brilliant Career is acclaimed for capturing the spirit of Australia at the turn of the twentieth century. The struggles of its fiery, precocious protagonist shine a light on the emergent women’s rights and suffrage movement during this period, and memorably evoke the intensity of youth.