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A Little Tea, A Little Chat (Text Classics) by Christina Stead
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
" Ever since his early manhood, since his marriage, he had bought women; most had been bargains and most had made delivery at once. He never paid in advance: I got no time for futures in women'. New York, on the cusp of World War II. Robert Grant, a middle-aged businessman, lives life by his own rules. ...Show more
A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters (1928-1973) by Christina Stead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This collection of Christina Stead's letters spans the life of one of Australia's most illustrious writers, offering a rare insight into the relationships that influenced and sustained her work. They reveal her reflections on the art of literature, the development of her political thought, and the signi ...Show more
Letty Fox by Christina Stead
$24.99 AUD
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
The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics by Christina Stead
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
$34.99 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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