Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2003-03-01 Public domain in the USA. 145 Richardson, Henry Handel 1870 1946 Richardson, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, Ethel Henrietta Robertson, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson Australia Felix 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.) en Australia -- Fiction PR Text Australia Browsing: Literature Browsing: Travel & Geography Browsing: Fiction 934905 926856 2024-10-02T10:12:20.174305 2023-10-02T09:01:28.199429 text/html text/html 924245 2021-01-09T00:41:05 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 371710 2021-01-09T00:41:05 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 454566 2024-10-02T10:12:32.529233 application/epub+zip 472541 2024-10-02T10:12:23.650263 application/epub+zip 463757 2024-10-02T10:12:22.229289 application/epub+zip 762650 2024-10-02T10:12:39.659172 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 737522 2024-10-02T10:12:31.626260 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 709317 2022-09-02T12:02:43.626495 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 885470 885437 2024-10-02T10:12:18.347297 2023-10-02T09:01:25.945403 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 885339 2021-01-09T00:41:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 366586 2021-01-09T00:41:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20058 2024-10-02T10:12:39.785191 application/rdf+xml 14687 2024-10-02T10:12:22.808275 image/jpeg 3712 2024-10-02T10:12:22.518269 image/jpeg 445595 2024-10-02T10:12:20.259297 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia