On the Victorian goldfields of the 1850s, Richard Mahony, an educated Irishman ill-suited to the diggings, runs a store at Ballarat amid mud, fever and riot. He marries the young Polly Turnham and slowly returns to medicine, but his restless pride never lets him settle in the colony that has given him a living.
The first volume of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, a cornerstone of Australian fiction and rewarding on its own. Download the free EPUB.
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