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Issue Details: First known date: 1910... 1910 The Getting of Wisdom
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    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Duffield ,       1910 .
      Extent: 274p.
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2013 .
      Extent: 264p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 20/11/2013
      ISBN: 9780143569695
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Henry Handel Richardson Collection Henry Handel Richardson , Australia : Transport Publishing , 2017 27517799 2017 selected work novel

    'Henry Handel Richardson was the pen name of Australia Author, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (3 January 1870 - 20 March 1946). This collection comprises all her Short Stories and 5 of her novels, including all three novels from her famous trilogy "The Fortunes of Richard Mahony" which details the slow decline, of a successful Australian physician and businessman and the effect this has on his family.' (Publication summary)

         Australia : Transport Publishing , 2017
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    y separately published work icon Essential Novelists - Henry Handel Richardson Early Modern Australian Fiction Henry Handel Richardson , August Nemo (editor), Vachendorf : Tacet Books , 2020 21006536 2020 selected work novel 'Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Henry Handel Richardson which are The Getting of Wisdom and Maurice Guest.
    'Henry Handel Richardson, pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, Australian novelist whose trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, combining description of an Australian immigrant's life and work in the goldfields with a powerful character study, is considered the crowning achievement of modern Australian fiction to that time.' (Publication summary)
              Vachendorf : Tacet Books , 2020
    • Bromley, Kent,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Revelation Press ,       2024 .
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      Extent: 233p.
      Note/s:

      • Publication date22 January 2024

Alternative title: Ungdomsar
Language: Swedish
Notes:
Adaptation of Richardson's novel by Ida Veitch for child readers.
    • West Melbourne, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,: Nelson , 1980 .
      Extent: 72p.
      ISBN: 0170057372
Alternative title: Les chemins de raison
Language: French
    • La Tour d'Aigues,
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      France,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Aube ,       2000 .
      Extent: 294p.
      ISBN: 2876785684
    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 2001 .
      Extent: lv, 282p.p.
      Edition info: Critical ed.
      Description: illus., maps
      Note/s:

      • This critical edition of the novel contains an account of its writing, its critical reception in Australia and elsewhere, and the story of its textual evolution. Notes indicate the level of realistic or historical detail Richardson used. The edition also contains, for the first time in print, a fragmentary memoir of Richardson written by her close friend Mary Kernot (the 'Cupid' of the novel), verses from Richardson about her schooldays and contemporary material from the school magazine.

      ISBN: 0702231789
      Series: The Academy Editions of Australian Literature Paul Eggert (editor), 1992- series - publisher General Editor's note: ... the first series of critical editions of major works of the nation's literature. The series provides reliable reading texts and contextual annotation based on rigorous scholarship and thorough textual collation.
Subjects:
Settings:
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • Bush,
  • 1880
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