TY - BOOK AU - Richardson,Henry Handel TI - Australia Felix AV - PR PY - 2003/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Australia -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fortunes_of_Richard_Mahony; Release date is 2003-03-01; Produced by Col Choat. HTML version by Al Haines; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Australia Felix" by Henry Handel Richardson is a novel published in 1917. It follows Dr. Richard Mahony, an educated Irishman running a store in the Australian goldfields near Ballarat during the 1850s. Disillusioned with colonial life, he pursues medicine and marries young Polly Turnham, who helps build his practice. As success grows, so does Mahony's restlessness and longing to escape Australia. This opening volume traces their early struggles, family entanglements, and the tensions between ambition and belonging in a raw frontier society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3832 ER -