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A Novel
“This crazy, gorgeous family novel” written at the end of the Great Depression “is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth centu...
Set in Baltimore in the 1930s, this novel tells of American family life, of the relations between parents and children, husbands and wives....
'In the harbour city's steamy, fecund heat, the air is thick with thwarted longing, the people on the tram smell like foxes, and the girls with their ...
Every family lives in an evolving story, told by all its members, inside a landscape of portentous events and characters. Their view of themselves is ...
DIVDIVAt the Hotel Swiss-Touring, both the guests and the staff get tangled in intrigues and veiled confessions/divDIV “If you knew what happens in ...
Reissue of the esteemed author's first novel, originally published in 1934. Includes a new introduction by Margaret Harris....
The Humourist
DIVChristina Stead’s unforgettable final novel—a profound examination of love and radicalism during the McCarthy era /divDIV In the wake of the Gr...
Selected Fiction and Nonfiction
Includes excerpts from novels, short fiction, unpublished prose, book reviews, interviews and letters....
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‘I hate and despise business and anything to do with making money.’ ‘Do you think it’s wrong?’ ‘It is the enemy of art.’ Eighteen-year-o...
Her Luck
One hot night last spring, after waiting fruitlessly for a call from my then lover, with whom I had quarreled the same afternoon, and finding one of m...
Selected Letters, 1928-1973
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 t...
The Letters of Christina Stead and William J. Blake
From the time Christina Stead, a shy Australian girl in London, met William J Blake, a cosmopolitan American, theirs was one of the great love stories...
Selected Letters, 1973-1983
The second volume of Christina Stead's letters, this book covers the period 1973 to just before her death in 1983. From just before her return to Aust...
Cotters' England follows the lives of Nellie Cook, sister Peggy Cotter and brother Tom. Set in post - war England, it is a study of politics and betra...
NHS Scotland appears to be in crisis. Today the British media is full of headlines such as “89-year-old great-grandmother waits 5 hours for an ambul...
"This crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood...
Volume 1 of 2
Volume 2 of 2
Medals for Dishonor, 1937-1940
Four Novellas
Letter writing was a vital part of Christina Stead's creative life and it grew increasingly important in her last decade. It was how she engaged with ...