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Issue Details: First known date: 1917... 1917 The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
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  • The three volumes of this trilogy were published separately and in omnibus editions, with minor title variations between appearances.

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y separately published work icon The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Australia Felix Henry Handel Richardson , London : Heinemann , 1917 Z430677 1917 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)

y separately published work icon Ultima Thule : Being the Third Part of the Chronicle of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Henry Handel Richardson , London : Heinemann , 1929 Z430784 1929 single work novel historical fiction
y separately published work icon The Way Home: Being the Second Part of the Chronicle of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Henry Handel Richardson , London : Heinemann , 1925 Z55593 1925 single work novel historical fiction

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