Henry Handel Richardson

The subject of this book is a young woman- an awkward, insecure, restless and 'knowing' child who learns that self-realisation depends on rebellion and escape, but that the latter will first demand at least the semblance of conformity. In telling lies, Laura learns both the astonishing allure of fiction and the social costs of stepping beyond the bounds of propriety, gender, class, and family ties. The novel is only in part a fictionalised account of Richardson's school years at the Presbyterian Ladies College, Melbourne, where (unlike her fictional counterpart) she was not only academically successful but also an outstanding student of music. Unusual for stories of school-life, The Getting of Wisdom was clearly aimed at a mature readership able to understand irony and a critique of the colonial educational provision of its day, including a determination to preserve sexual ignorance in young women.

The Getting of Wisdom

Maurice Guest's dream of becoming a great pianist is ruined by his destructive relationship with pianist Louise Dufrayer, who remains obsessed with thoughts of her old lover, Schilsky

Maurice Guest

The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney

El principio de la sabiduría

The unfinished autobiography of one of the great Australian novelists—Henry Handel Richardson, the pen name of Ethel F. Lindesay Robertson. From the author of The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney and The Getting of Wisdom, comes this lively and revealing self-portrait of the artist as a young woman.

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Myself When Young

The Getting of Wisdom is a novel by Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson. It was first published in 1910, and has almost always been in print ever since. Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off family which later fell on hard times. The author's family lived in various Victorian towns and from the age of 13 to 17 Richardson attended boarding school at the Presbyterian Ladies' College in Melbourne, Victoria. It's this experience that feeds directly into The Getting of Wisdom.

Kocası Richard’ın ölümünden bir ay sonra Mary Mahony, oğlu Cuffy ve kızı Lucie’yle başka bir kasabaya taşınır. Çocukları için her şeyi göze alan anneye göre dokuz yaşındaki oğlu aklı havada, hayalperest bir çocuktur. Ancak yaşamın acı sürprizleri karşısında kendisini ve kız kardeşini ayakta tutabilmek için Cuffy çocukluğunu bir günde geride bırakacaktır. Bir ailenin başından geçenlerle bir dönemin hikâyesini çıkaran Çocukluğun Sonu, dört bölümlük bir öykünün içine bütün bir romanı sığdırıyor. #avustralyamodernleri #büyümek #babasızlık #fedakarlık #kardeşlik #geçim

Çocukluğun Sonu

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Andy Adams

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Gertrude Stein

Hugh Walpole

Mór Jókai

Arthur Quiller-Couch

B. M. Bower

Richard Middleton

Pierre Louÿs

This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - Mór Jókai:Thirteen at Table. The Celestial Slingers. The Bad Old Times. The Hostile Skulls. Love And The Little Dog. The Justice Of Soliman – A Turkish Story. The Compulsory Diversion—An Old Baron's Yarn. - Andy Adams:Drifting North. Siegerman's Per Cent. "Bad Medicine". A Winter Round-Up. A College Vagabond. The Double Trail. Rangering. - B. M. Bower:The Lonesome Trail. First Aid To Cupid. When The Cook Fell Ill. The Lamb. The Spirit of the Range. The Reveler. The Unheavenly Twins - Richard Middleton:The Ghost Ship. A Drama of Youth. The New Boy. On the Brighton Road. A Tragedy in Little. Sheperd's Boy. The Passing of Edward. - Pierre Louÿs:Woman and Puppy. The New Pleasure. Byblis. Leda. Immortal Love. The Artist Triumphant. The Hill Of Horsel. - Hugh Walpole:The Whistle. The Silver Mask The Staircase. A carnation for an old man. Tarnhelm Mr. Oddy. Seashore Macabre. - Henry Handel Richardson:The End of a Childhood. The Bathe. Succedaneum. Mary Christina. "And Women Must Weep". Sister Ann. The Coat. - Gertrude Stein:Ada. Miss furr and Miss Skeen. France. Americans. Italians. A Sweet Tail. In the Grass. - E. Phillips Oppenheim:The Noxious Gift. Traske and the Bracelet. The Atruscan Silver mine. The Defeat of Rundermere. The End of John Dykes—Burglar. A Woman Intervenes. The Regeneration of Jacobs. - Arthur Wuiller-Couch:I Saw Three Ships. The Haunted Dragoon. A Blue Pantomime. The Two Householders. The Disenchantment of 'Lizabeth. The Laird's Luck. Captain Dick and Captain Jacka.

Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 12

Set in Australia during the gold-mining boom, this remarkable trilogy is one of the classics of Australian literature. Henry Handel Richardson's great literary achievement, comprising the novels Australia Felix, The Way Home and Ultima Thule, weaves together many themes. Richard Mahony, despite finding initial contentment with his wife, Mary, becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his ordered life. His restlessness is not understood by Mary, who has to endure the constant shattering of her security as Richard desperately attempts to free himself; his attempts finally plunge them into poverty. In the figure of Richard Mahony, Richardson captures the soul of the emigrant, ever restless, ever searching for some equilibrium, yet never really able to settle anywhere. Richard's search, though, is also the more universal one for a meaning that will validate and give purpose to his existence.

Richard Mahony is a restless man. Ballarat, England, Melbourne, Europe, the bush: elsewhere is always better. Searching for a place, a meaning, a life, Mahony and his wife Mary journey from wealth to poverty, order to chaos, sanity to the asylum. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a towering novel.

The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony

This book contains a collection of short stories. In this book, the author explores themes that revolve around childhood sensuality and the challenges of growing up in the Victorian era. The book contains: The End of a Childhood: Four Further Chapters In The Life of Cuffy Mahony - Growing Pains: Sketches of Girlhood - The Bathe - Three in a Row - Preliminary Canter - Conversation in a Pantry - The Bath - The Wrong Turning - "And Women Must Weep" - Two Hanged Women - Two Tales of Old Strasbourg: Life and Death of Peterle Luthy - The Professor's Experiment - Succedaneum - Mary Christina - The Coat - Sister Ann

The End of a Childhood

Reproduction of the original: Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

Miles Franklin

Presenting My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin and The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson with illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund. These Australian coming of age classics are part of The Great Books Series by Golding Books. My Brilliant Career is one of the most celebrated Australian novels, a unique coming of age classic with a memorable and strong female lead in Sybylla Melvyn, an aspiring artist and an individual who is in many ways ahead of her time. Miles Franklin's first novel, written while she was still a teenager, also influenced Australian history (and Australian literature) in many ways that the author could not have predicted, being a key launching pad for her long career and its culmination in the prestigious Miles Franklin Award, and just as significant a launching pad for film luminaries (involved in making the film of the novel in 1979) such as director Gilliam Armstrong and actors Judy Davis and Sam Neill. Just as important in Australian feminist literature, and Australian fiction in general, is The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson. It presents another strong female character in Laura Tweedle Rambotham, an imaginative storyteller that undergoes great challenges at a Melbourne boarding school (based on Richardson's own experiences). As with My Brilliant Career, a film of the novel (made in 1978) was significant in the Australian film industry (and beyond), being directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Susannah Fowle, John Waters, and Barry Humphries (of Dame Edna Everage fame). Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin, was born in 1879 in Talbingo, New South Wales. She is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901 with the help of writer Henry Lawson. Though she wrote throughout her life, her other popular novel, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936. In 1906, Franklin moved to Chicago and undertook secretarial work for Australian Alice Henry at the National Women's Trade Union League, and also co-edited the league's magazine, Life and Labor. After volunteering as a hospital cook attached to the Serbian army near Lake Ostrovo later in World War I, from 1919 to 1926 she worked as Secretary with the National Housing and Town Planning Association in London. After the death of her father in 1931, Franklin resettled in Australia. She resolutely encouraged writers and the growth of Australian literature, and her endowment of the annual Miles Franklin Award rewards works about "Australian Life in any of its phases." Franklin died at the age of 74. Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, known by her pen name of Henry Handel Richardson, was born in East Melbourne, Victoria, in 1870. Her family lived in various Victorian towns, including Chiltern, Queenscliff, Koroit, and Maldon; her mother was postmistress at Maldon (her father having died of syphilis when she was nine). Richardson went to board at the Presbyterian Ladies' College in Melbourne from ages 13 to 17, excelling there in the arts and music, and some of these experiences were the basis for The Getting of Wisdom (1910). In 1888, her mother took the family to Europe to enable Richardson to continue her musical studies at the Leipzig Conservatorium. While in Leipzig--where her first novel, Maurice Guest (1908), is set--she met the Scot John George Robertson (a student and later teacher of German literature). In 1894 they married in Munich; his subsequent posting at University College would take them to London. Richardson returned to Australia in 1912 to research family history for her trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (comprising novels Australia Felix (1917), The Way Home (1925), and Ultima Thule (1929)--the latter awarded the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for 1929), but this would be her last return home. Richardson died in Hastings, England, in 1946.

My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin and the Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson with Illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund (Illustrated)

Jens Peter Jacobsen

Siren Voices. Niels Lyhne ... Translated from the Danish by Ethel F.L. Robertson

The Getting of Wisdom (1910) is a novel by Henry Handel Richardson. Based on her experiences at Melbourne’s Presbyterian Ladies’ College, The Getting of Wisdom is a coming-of-age novel aimed at a young audience. Engaged with such themes as grief, bullying, and peer-pressure, Richardson’s novel is a powerful story of a young girl finding her way in the world. An instant bestseller, the novel has never gone out of print. “Laura went into her own room and locked the door, a thing Mother did not allow. Then she threw herself on the bed and cried. Mother had not understood in the least...” Punished for cutting her own hair without permission, Laura Tweedle Rambotham defies her mother once more. Alone in her room, she begins to think about her mother’s words, letting them sink in until the truth can no longer be denied. In the morning, she leaves for The Ladies’ College, a boarding school far from family and friends—and in Melbourne, no less, a city she has never been to. Scared, nervous, and tired, she drifts off to sleep in her childhood room for the last time. Heartfelt and deeply personal, The Getting of Wisdom is a powerful coming-of-age story from one of Australia’s best-loved writers. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Henry Handel Richardson The Getting of Wisdom is a classic of Australian literature reimagined for modern readers.

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