Richardson

71544 — E-325. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. W. W. Norton & Company Inc New York. 1929. 314 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a three-part novel by Australian writer Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson under her pen name of Henry Handel Richardson. It consists of Australia Felix 1917 The Way Home 1925 and Ultima Thule 1929. It was collected in 1930 under the title by which it is now best known. Long out of print at least outside of Australia its publisher William Heinemann Ltd claimed on the jacket to the 1965 edition "This is now recognized as one of the greatest novels in the English language." It was acclaimed for its rich characterizations and then-startling depiction of mental illness attacking an otherwise respectable person while his much-younger wife who does not think herself clever must become resourceful with a high-level of uncomfortable capability. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover