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Australia Felix (Hardcover)
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Australia Felix (Hardcover)
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Australia Felix (1917) is a novel by Henry Handel Richardson. Based
on the life of her parents, Australia Felix is the first in a
trilogy of novels later published as The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
(1930). The trilogy has earned praise from countless authors and
critics for its startling depictions of a man's decline due to
mental illness and the lengths to which his wife must go to care
for their young family. "In a shaft on the Gravel Pits, a man had
been buried alive. At work in a deep wet hole, he had recklessly
omitted to slab the walls of a drive; uprights and tailors yielded
under the lateral pressure, and the rotten earth collapsed,
bringing down the roof in its train." Into this dangerous world of
mining, Richard Mahony arrives in search of fortune. As the
proprietor of Digger's Emporium, his business depends on the trust
of his customers, most of them rugged, hard-drinking gold miners.
But the men find it hard to respect Mahony, a teetotaler whose
upper-class sensibilities strike them as snobbish at best,
insulting at worst. As his store slowly fails, Richard turns his
attention to the young Polly Turnham, a servant at the local hotel.
When they marry, Polly suggests to her husband that he abandon his
business and turn to medicine instead. His practice in Ballarat is
a success, allowing them to start a family and live comfortably-for
a time. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Henry Handel Richardson
Australia Felix is a classic of Australian literature reimagined
for modern readers.
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