{"product_id":"9781921921889","title":"The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony: Text Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony\u003c\/i\u003e is a towering novel. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis edition reproduces the text of the 1930 Heinemann edition, which gathered all three books in one volume. It includes a new introduction by Peter Craven.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Handel Richardson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Melbourne in 1870. She was was sent to board at the Presbyterian Ladies College in  1883—an experience that provided material for her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Getting of Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e. She published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eMaurice Guest\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1908, followed by the trilogy that would become \u003ci\u003eThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony\u003c\/i\u003e. Her final novel \u003ci\u003eThe Young Cosima\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1939.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Craven\u003c\/b\u003e is one of Australia's best-known literary critics. He was a founding editor of \u003ci\u003eScripsi\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuarterly Essay\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eBest of\u003c\/i\u003e anthologies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etextclassics.com.au\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'More than any other novel in our literature, more than \u003ci\u003eVoss\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Fortunes of Richard Mahony\u003c\/i\u003e deserves the accolade of the Great Australian Novel…it is a mighty and moving work, this bursting at the seams anti-epic to the muse of a  vanity which sees every golden bowl broken and every silver cord loosed.’ Peter Craven\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141252333808,"sku":"9781921921889","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921921889_p0.jpg?v=1763632638","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921921889","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}