Medium Paperback, Good+ Condition, Previous Owner's Markings, 1992, 590 pages, ISBN 1 86330 234 4

Maurice Guest – Henry Handel Richardson

Maurice Guest, a young man studying music in Leipzig is crippled by an obsessive and destructive love affair with an Australian girl; an affair in which he becomes the impotent victim of his own despair.

First published in 1908 and hauntingly autobiographical, Henry Handel Richardson has given us a compelling account of love and jealousy – and a classic in Australian literature.

“The story of an overwhelming and disastrous passion, (Maurice Guest) epitomises an entire world of human aspiration and failure.” – The Times