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Maurice Guest
By (Author) Henry Handel Richardson
Introduction by Clive Probyn
Sydney University Press
Sydney University Press
1st July 2008
Australia
Professional and Scholarly
Fiction
A823.2
Paperback
628
Width 148mm, Height 210mm, Spine 47mm
685g
An autobiographical novel set in the musical culture of 1890s Leipzig, where Richardson was a student from 1889 to 1892. An international cast of music students perform, debate, love and drink in an intense and self-possessed world in Leipzig the context to Maurice's consuming obsession for the elusive Louise Dufrayer, an Australian femme fatale.
Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (Henry Handel) (1870-1946) was an Australian novelist and short story writer who spent much of her time living in Germany and in London.