Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Marks on front and back cover. No dust jacket. Previous owners have signed inside pages. Sticky tape stains on inside front and back covers. Now covered in protective non-adhesive cover. Binding is still in good condition.

Originally published as a trilogy between 1917 and 1929. Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym used by Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (1870-1946).

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is Richardson's most important work, and Richard Mahony, a complex portrayal of Richardson's father, is the first substantial character in Australian fiction. Richardson's brilliant analysis of human inadequacy, the gulf between ideal and achievement, and the complexities of circumstance, environment, and human frailty make her one of Australia's most distinguished novelists.

In Australian Felix, the first volume in the trilogy, Mahony's history is closely interwoven with the history of the Ballarat gold rush. (back cover)