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y separately published work icon The Fortunes of Richard Mahony : Comprising Australia Felix, The Way Home, Ultima Thule selected work   novel   historical fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 1930... 1930 The Fortunes of Richard Mahony : Comprising Australia Felix, The Way Home, Ultima Thule
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Text Publishing , 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
No Success Like Failure, Peter Craven , single work criticism (p. vii-xvii)
Note: Craven's introduction appears in the 2012 Text Publishing edition of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Henry Handel Richardson , single work novel historical fiction

'He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all…deep down in him, he knew, was an enormous residue of vitality…It was like a buried treasure, jealously kept for the event of his one day catching up with life: not the bare scramble for a living that here went by that name, but Life with a capital L.

'Richard Mahony is a restless man. Ballarat, England, Melbourne, Europe, the bush: elsewhere is always better.

'Searching for a place, a meaning, a life, Mahony and his wife Mary journey from wealth to poverty, order to chaos, sanity to the asylum. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a towering novel.' (Publication summary)

 (p. 1-383)
The Way Home: Being the Second Part of the Chronicle of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Henry Handel Richardson , single work novel historical fiction (p. 385-657)
Ultima Thule : Being the Third Part of the Chronicle of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Henry Handel Richardson , single work novel historical fiction (p. 659-941)
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