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Title: Australia Felix
Note: Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fortunes_of_Richard_Mahony
Credits: Produced by Col Choat. HTML version by Al Haines.
Summary: "Australia Felix" by Henry Handel Richardson is a historical novel written during the late 19th century. The book depicts the lives of gold diggers in Australia, particularly focusing on the struggles, dreams, and disappointments of the characters amid the harsh realities of the gold rush era. The opening portion introduces Long Jim, a digger mourning the recent death of a fellow miner and reflecting on his own misfortunes and the allure of wealth that led him from his former life to the difficult conditions in Australia. The opening of "Australia Felix" begins with a tragic incident at Gravel Pits, where a miner named Bill is buried alive due to a cave-in. Long Jim, a weary and disillusioned digger, grapples with grief not for Bill but for his own string of misfortunes, which have rendered him unsuccessful in the goldfields. As he reminisces about his past life as a lamplighter in England, Jim's longing for home unveils his homesickness and regret for leaving behind everything familiar. The narrative shifts to depict the goldfields bustling with activity, where various miners and even a young boy, Purdy, find themselves caught in the tumult of searches for fortune amidst personal and political unrest, setting the stage for the complex interplay of hope and despair that characterizes the digger's experience in 19th-century Australia. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 79.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Author: Richardson, Henry Handel, 1870-1946
EBook No.: 3832
Published: Mar 1, 2003
Downloads: 276
Language: English
Subject: Australia -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: English literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
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Title: Australia Felix
Note: Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fortunes_of_Richard_Mahony
Credits: Produced by Col Choat. HTML version by Al Haines.
Summary: "Australia Felix" by Henry Handel Richardson is a historical novel written during the late 19th century. The book depicts the lives of gold diggers in Australia, particularly focusing on the struggles, dreams, and disappointments of the characters amid the harsh realities of the gold rush era. The opening portion introduces Long Jim, a digger mourning the recent death of a fellow miner and reflecting on his own misfortunes and the allure of wealth that led him from his former life to the difficult conditions in Australia. The opening of "Australia Felix" begins with a tragic incident at Gravel Pits, where a miner named Bill is buried alive due to a cave-in. Long Jim, a weary and disillusioned digger, grapples with grief not for Bill but for his own string of misfortunes, which have rendered him unsuccessful in the goldfields. As he reminisces about his past life as a lamplighter in England, Jim's longing for home unveils his homesickness and regret for leaving behind everything familiar. The narrative shifts to depict the goldfields bustling with activity, where various miners and even a young boy, Purdy, find themselves caught in the tumult of searches for fortune amidst personal and political unrest, setting the stage for the complex interplay of hope and despair that characterizes the digger's experience in 19th-century Australia. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 79.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Author: Richardson, Henry Handel, 1870-1946
EBook No.: 3832
Published: Mar 1, 2003
Downloads: 276
Language: English
Subject: Australia -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: English literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.