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Richardson,
Henry
Handel.
ULTIMA
THULE
Final
volume
in
The
Fortunes
Of
Richard
Mahony
trilogy
Penguin,
1987.
279
pages
paperback
184
grams
The
Fortunes
of
Richard
Mahony
was
originally
published
as
a
trilogy
between
1917
an&1929,
It
is
without
question
Henry
Handel
Richardson's
most
important
work,
and
Richard
Mahony,
a
complex
portrayal
of
Richardson's
own
father,
is
the
first
substantial
character
in
Australian
fiction
Richardson's
brilliant
analysis
of
human
inadequacy,
of
the
gulf
between
ideal
and
achievement,
and
of
the
complexities
of
circumstance,
environment
and
human
frailty,
make
her
one
of
Australia's
most
distinguished
novelists
In
The
Fortunes
of
Richard
Mahony
she
brings
together
knowledge
of
a
significant
period
of
Australian
history,
an
understanding
of
human
weakness,
and
a
grasp
of
the
principles
and
techniques
of
the
best
European
and
Russian
writers
of
the
nineteenth
century
Ultima
Thule,
the
final
volume
in
the
trilogy,
opens
with
Mahony's
financial
ruin
and
explores
the
complete
disintegration
of
his
personality.
The
Australian
countryside
at
its
worst
takes
on
almost
human
shapes
of
menace
and
hostility,
and
Mahony
is
finally
broken
as
much
by
the
country
of
his
exile
as
by
his
own
morbid
sensitivity
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