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For Love Alone by Christina Stead
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Set in Sydney and London in the 1930s, 'For Love Alone' is the story of Teresa Hawkins, an intelligent, ardent young woman, and her search for the ideal passion of love.
House of All Nations by Christina Stead
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
House of All Nations is Christina Stead's 1938 gripping portrayal of financial world success. Set in an exclusive European bank in the heady days of the early thirties, Stead weaves a remarkable tale of greedy, devious and shady characters, all brought together by their love of money. The director of th ...Show more
Letty Fox by Christina Stead
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Category: Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
In this classic novel by Christina Stead, published here with an introduction by Carmen Callil, Letty Fox tells her story as a self-styled woman in New York's world of passion, love and sexual bargaining. As a bright, uninhibited daughter of a middle class couple who believes the world is her oyster, Le ...Show more
Seven Poor Men of Sydney by Christina Stead
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Category: Specials | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Originally published in 1934, Seven Poor Men of Sydney is Christina Stead's first novel, a brilliant portrayal of a group of men and women living in Sydney in the 1920s amid conditions of poverty and social turmoil. Set against the vividly drawn backgrounds of Fisherman's (Watson's) Bay and the innercit ...Show more
The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics by Christina Stead
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"The express flew towards Paris over the flooded March swamps. In a parlour-car, the melancholy dark young woman looked out persistently at the sand-dunes, cement-mills, pines, the war-cemetery with stone banners like folded umbrellas, the fields under water, the bristling ponds with deserted boats and ...Show more
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for one another. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of the relations bet ...Show more
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