{"title":"Henry Handel Richardson","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-fortunes-of-richard-mahony-hardcover","title":"The Fortunes of Richard Mahony - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The Fortunes of Richard Mahony' is the masterpiece of the Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson. It consists of three parts: Australia Felix (1917), The Way Home (1925), and Ultima Thule (1929). The trilogy was collected in 1930 under the title by which it is now best known. Set in Australia during the gold rush of the mid-nineteenth century, the three novels trace the rise and fall of the title character against the backdrop of colonial expansion (and, indeed, contraction). The story begins in the 1850's. and follows the course Richard Mahoney's life from his days as a store-keeper in shanty-town Ballarat during the gold rush, through the vicissitudes of his interrupted career as a doctor, until the final tragedy of his death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67576914018527,"sku":"9781781390672","price":87.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/mAZMpQBZRu9781781390672.webp?v=1790387635"},{"product_id":"the-fortunes-of-richard-mahony-paperback","title":"The Fortunes of Richard Mahony - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'\u003cem\u003eThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony\u003c\/em\u003e deserves the accolade of the Great Australian Novel' - Peter Craven\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA superb, sprawling trilogy of a family fortune won and lost in gold-rush Australia. \u003cem\u003eThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll three volumes - \u003cem\u003eAustralia Felix\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Way Home\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUltima Thule\u003c\/em\u003e - are included here. The trilogy stands as one of the great portraits of the Australian canon - and a vivid depiction of the migrant experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A work of huge ambition, power, pity and unflinching honesty' - \u003cem\u003eThe Age\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cem\u003eThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony\u003c\/em\u003e is an all but lost continent of a book. It is a novel about poverty and worldly failure, and the grind and nightmare of a life that is ruled by money, which does its best to ride roughshod over every impulse towards simplicity and delicacy and truth. It is a book written in defiance of materialism and complacency, full of hatred of the vision of Australia summed up by James McAuley's words: \"The people are kindly with nothing inside them.\"' - \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cem\u003eThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a masterpiece\u003c\/em\u003e, a great novel. Reading it was one of the most fulfilling literary experiences I've ever had.' - Angela Meyer, LiteraryMinded\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the greatest novels in the English language.' - William Heinemann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'More than any other novel in our literature, more than \u003cem\u003eVoss\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony\u003c\/em\u003e deserves the accolade of the Great Australian Novel...it is a mighty and moving work, this bursting at the seams anti-epic to the muse of a vanity which sees every golden bowl broken and every silver cord loosed.' - Peter Craven\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Henry Handel Richardson' was the pen-name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, who was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1870. Her father was a medical graduate of Edinburgh University, and her mother was the daughter of a Leicester solicitor; they married after migrating to Australia during the Victorian goldrushes. After her father's death in 1879, her mother worked as a postmistress in country towns, but later she was able to take Ethel and her sister Lilian to Europe, to study music at Leipzig. Ethel, who became a skilled pianist, married John George Robertson, a science graduate turned philologist. Robertson was appointed Professor of German and Scandinavian Languages and Literatures at London University in 1903, where he became one of the foremost scholars of his day. By this time Ethel had begun to write, having given up all thought of a musical career. Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eMaurice Guest\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 1908 and had a number of imitators. Her second, \u003cem\u003eThe Getting of Wisdom\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1910 was described by H. G. Wells as the best school story he knew. Her most important work was \u003cem\u003eThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony\u003c\/em\u003e, published in three volumes, comprising \u003cem\u003eAustralia Felix\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Way Home\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUltima Thule\u003c\/em\u003e, from 1917 to 1929.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67577563021535,"sku":"9781922491145","price":35.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/dYkXKBzKT29781922491145.webp?v=1790395011"},{"product_id":"the-end-of-a-childhood-four-further-chapters-in-the-life-of-cuffy-mahony-hardcover","title":"The End of a Childhood: Four Further Chapters in the Life of Cuffy Mahony - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCuffy Mahony is a young boy in country Victoria in the late nineteenth century. He lost his father just under a year ago, and his mother is feeling the heat a little, both in looking after him and his little sister Luce, and in maintaining her job as the village postmistress. But they manage as best they can, with the help of their live-in maid Bowey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Mahony struggles proudly to keep up the standards set when her husband Richard was alive. He had been in his last years a difficult man, and in some senses she is aware of a feeling of newfound freedom. But she does worry about her children and what will become of them on her small wage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe finally decides that the time has come for her to take leave and find a good school with a scholarship for Cuffy in Melbourne. Her house-proudness means that the place must be spruced up, so that her temporary replacement won't get a poor impression. With intense industry she sets about a major tidy and painting job. One day, up a ladder, she reaches over a little too far, and comes crashing down heavily onto the floor. This minor disaster starts a chain of events that will alter irredeemably all their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith extraordinarily lucid and forceful prose, Henry Handel Richardson charts the inner worlds of mother and son as they attempt to overcome their fears and face life without becoming too cowed by doubt. \u003cem\u003eThe End of a Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e is both a pendant piece to Richardson's great trilogy \u003cem\u003eThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony\u003c\/em\u003e, and readable separately as a delicate, heartbreaking and beautiful portrait of a crucial nexus in the life of a family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67736508563679,"sku":"9780648920410","price":24.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lHR52r7YT9780648920410.webp?v=1790632253"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/henry-handel-richardson.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}