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Henry Handel Richardson
Cuffy Mahony is a young boy in country Victoria in the late nineteenth century. He lost his father just under a year ago, and his mother is feeling the heat…
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The classic Australian novel of school days, a compelling and frank account of a young girl’s coming of age.
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"Maurice Guest" by Henry Handel Richardson is a compelling and intricate novel that delves into the complexities of love, music, and passion in the world of 19th-century European classical music…
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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…
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The Getting of Wisdom is the coming-of-age story of a spontaneous heroine who finds herself ensconced in the rigidity of a turn-of-the-century boarding school.
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Henry Handel Richardson has been celebrated for her classic Australian novels The Getting of Wisdom and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony yet her own life-story is still to be fully…
Australian author Henry Handel Richardson wrote a book titled The Getting of Wisdom.At the age of 12, the main character, Laura Tweedle Rambotham, is sent to a boarding school in…
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Laura, a spirited and unconventional heroine, attempts to adapt herself to the discipline of school and the unrelenting judgements of her classmates. The freedom of her country childhood seems far…
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A superb, sprawling trilogy of a family fortune won and lost in gold-rush Australia.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
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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…
A passionate and controversial novel set in turn - of - the - century Europe Henry Handel Richardson’s debut, published in London in 1908, is set in the music scene…
Henry Handel Richardson is one of Australia’s most important writers, and this is one of her best loved novels. It is the coming of age story of Laura Rambotham as…
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Australia Felix; Part -I
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‘The Fortunes of Richard Mahony deserves the accolade of the Great Australian Novel’ - Peter Craven
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books…
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Maurice Guest, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for…
The unfinished autobiography of one of the great Australian novelists-Henry Handel Richardson, the pen name of Ethel F. Lindesay Robertson. From the author of The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney and…
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The Australian author, Henry Handel Richardson’s (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson), is best remembered for The Fortunes of Richard Mahony trilogy. Her novel, Maurice Guest, plays out the history of Maurice…
Edited By Clive Probyn and Bruce Steele
In this volume the widowed HHR moves to the Sussex village where she lived until her death. The letters cover the publication of The End of a Childhood and Other…
Henry Handel Richardson, PSE
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an…
Excerpt: … their charms. Yes, they looked very nice, said Laura in a small voice, and was extremely conscious of her own thirteen years. Simply stunning! Though May’s so slender
This book has been deemed as a classic and has stood the test of time. The book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to…
