The way home (1925)

by Henry Handel Richardson

Series: The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (book 2)

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"The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney" was published as a trilogy between 1917 and 1929, and is without question Henry Handel Richardson's most important work. In this second volume of the trilogy, Mahoney returns to England, and discovers that his years in the colonies have alienated him from provincial English society.… (more)

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The ancient little town of Buddlecombe, originally pressed down the mouth of a narrow valley to the sea, from which it is protected by rampart and breakwater, has, in the course of the centuries, scaled the nearer of the two hills that confine it.

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Life was like a procession that trooped along this perilous margin, brimful of hope and vigour, gay, superbly unthinking; and then of a sudden there was a gap in the ranks, and one of the train had vanished, had pitched head-foremost into the depths, to be seen no more - by mortal eyes at least.

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"The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney" was published as a trilogy between 1917 and 1929, and is without question Henry Handel Richardson's most important work. In this second volume of the trilogy, Mahoney returns to England, and discovers that his years in the colonies have alienated him from provincial English society.

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