Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2003-03-01 Public domain in the USA. 243 Richardson, Henry Handel 1870 1946 Richardson, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, Ethel Henrietta Robertson, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson Australia Felix Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fortunes_of_Richard_Mahony Produced by Col Choat. HTML version by Al Haines. "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 ease score: 79.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Australia -- Fiction PR Text Australia Category: Historical Novels Category: Novels 935042 2025-07-02T08:53:23.311062 text/html 924245 2021-01-09T00:41:05 text/html 454628 2025-07-02T08:53:34.202010 application/epub+zip 472500 2025-07-02T08:53:26.374074 application/epub+zip 463717 2025-07-02T08:53:25.126034 application/epub+zip 762660 2025-07-02T08:53:40.478993 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 737522 2025-07-02T08:53:33.394026 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 709317 2022-09-02T12:02:43.626495 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 885470 2025-07-02T08:53:21.746074 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 885339 2021-01-09T00:41:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19195 2025-07-02T08:53:40.611943 application/rdf+xml 14687 2025-07-02T08:53:25.629053 image/jpeg 3712 2025-07-02T08:53:25.376061 image/jpeg 371710 2021-01-09T00:41:05 application/octet-stream application/zip 366586 2021-01-09T00:41:05 application/octet-stream application/zip 445637 2025-07-02T08:53:23.388032 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia