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The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson

ISBN: 9781922079404 PUBLISHER: Text Publishing Co FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 296 PUBLICATION DATE: 22.08.2012 DIMENSIONS: 198mmX128mmX18mm 203grams

DESCRIPTION: One of the most memorable characters in Australian fiction, Laura Rambotham, aged twelve, enters the portals of an exclusive girls' school eager to be accepted. But this precocious country girl is snubbed and ridiculed by her fellow students, who are richer, more attractive and more adept at dealing with life's hypocrisies. The Getting of Wisdom, a wicked and satirical novel on the pain and confusion of growing up, first appeared in 1910. A century later it has lost none of its bite. In her splendid introduction Germaine Greer describes this classic as 'Richardson's only great book precisely because the subject is, like the rest of us, ordinary, and therefore deeply important'.

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