The Way Home (Fortunes of Richard Mahony #2) By Henry Handel Richardson
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The Fortunes of Richard Mahony was originally published as a trilogy between 1917 and 1929 It is without question Henry Handel Richardson s most important work and Richard Mahony a complex portrayal of Richardson s own father is the first substantial character in Australian fiction Richardson s brilliant analysis of human inadequacy of the gulf between ideal and achievement and of the complexities of circumstance environment and human frailty make her one of Australia s most distinguished novelists In The Fortunes of Richard Mahony she brings together knowledge of a significant period of Australian history an understanding of human weakness and a grasp of the principles and techniques of the best European and Russian writers of the nineteenth century The Way Home the second volume in the trilogy is a study of disillusionment Mahony having bought a medical practice on the south coast of England discovers that his years in the colonies have alienated him from provincial English society He returns to Australia and posperity A second visit to Europe a Grand Tour is cut short by the failure of his financial affairs and Mahony is recalled abruptly and finally to Australia The trilogy is completed in Ultima Thule The Way Home Fortunes of Richard Mahony 2 Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson Robertson for mixed motives used and adopted Henry Handel Richardson a pen name that probably militated against recognition especially when feminist literary history began Maurice Guest was highly praised in Germany when it first appeared in translation in 1912 but received a bad press in England though it influenced other novelists The publishers bowdlerized the language for the second imprint The trilogy suffered from the long intervals between its three volumes Australia Felix 1917 The Way Home 1925 and Ultima Thule 1929 The last brought overnight fame and the three volumes were published as one in 1930 Her fame in England was short lived as late as 1977 when Virago Press republished T Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson Robertson for mixed motives used and adopted Henry Handel Richardson a pen name that probably militated against recognition especially when feminist literary history began Maurice Guest was highly praised in Germany when it first appeared in translation in 1912 but received a bad press in England though it influenced other novelists The publishers bowdlerized the language for the second imprint The trilogy suffered from the long intervals between its three volumes Australia Felix 1917 The Way Home 1925 and Ultima Thule 1929 The last brought overnight fame and the three volumes were published as one in 1930 Her fame in England was short lived as late as 1977 when Virago Press republished The Getting of Wisdom some London critics referred to the author as Mr Richardson Her short stories The End of a Childhood 1934 and the novel The Young Cosima 1939 had lukewarm receptions. Book the way out Henry Handel Richardson s place in Australian literature is important and secure The Fortunes is an archetypal novel of the country written about the great upsurge of nineteenth century Western capitalism fuelled by the gold discoveries With relentless objectivity it surveys all the main issues which were to define the direction of white Australian society from the 1850s onwards within the domestic framework of a marriage Powerfully symbolic in a realistic mode it is as an English critic said in 1973 one of the great inexorable books of the world site_link Free download available at eBooks Adelaide Henry Handel Richardson The second in Mahoney s trilogy and the focus is on his disillusionment Back in England he struggles to make a living in a land where he is considered to be a backward colonial Frustrated he returns to Australia and finds his investments have boomed and he is now rich He quits his work to focus on looking good buying things and keeping up with the Jones Polly now renamed as Mary goes along with her husbands various schemes but has grown now to be assertive. The way home cast 2023 Richard remains unfulfilled sells up and thinking the grass is always greener returns once again to England Henry Handel Richardson A classic cliff hanger ending Henry Handel Richardson Second in a series based on the author s father The Getting of Wisdom 4 starsThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony Australia Felix 4 stars The Way Home TBR Ultima Thule TBR Henry Handel Richardson Magnificent This trilogy is brilliant Henry Handel Richardson
| The Way Home (Fortunes of Richard Mahony #2) By Henry Handel Richardson |
| 0140033408 |
| 9780140033403 |
| English |
| 269 |
| Paperback |
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