The burgeoning literary concept that Australia was an extension of another, more distant country, was beginning to infiltrate into writing: " who have at last understood the significance of Australian history as a transplanting of stocks and the sending down of roots in a new soil". Henry Handel Richardson, author of post-Federation novels such as "Maurice Guest" (1908) and "The Getting of Wisdom" (1910), was said to have been heavily influenced by French and Scandinavian realism. In the twentieth century, as the working-class community of Sydney proliferated, the focus was shifted from the bush archetype to a more urban, inner-city setting: William Lane's "The Working Man's Paradise" (1892), Christina Stead's "Seven Poor Men of Sydney" (1934) and Ruth Park's "The Harp in the South" (1948) all depicted the harsh, gritty reality of working class Sydney. Patrick White's novels "Tree of Man" (1955) and "Voss" (1957) fared particularly well and in 1973 White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.