Christina Stead (1902–1983) was an Australian writer regarded as one of the twentieth century”s master novelists. Stead spent most of her writing life in Europe and the United States, and her varied residences acted as the settings for a number of her novels. She is best known for The Man Who Loved Children (1940), which was praised by author Jonathan Franzen as a “crazy, gorgeous family novel” and “one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century.” Stead died in her native Australia in 1983.
8 หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์โดย Christina Stead
Christina Stead: House of All Nations
The devious world of international finance comes alive in Christina Stead’s enthralling epic about a ruthless bank director in 1930s Paris Praised as ‘;a work of extraordinary talent’ by the New York …
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Christina Stead: For Love Alone
One woman’s obsession with love and fate leads her to unexpected truths about passion, sexuality, and power in 1930s London Driven by a belief in love above all else, Teresa Hawkins leaves her …
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Christina Stead: Little Hotel
At the Hotel Swiss-Touring, both the guests and the staff get tangled in intrigues and veiled confessions“If you knew what happens in the hotel every day!” Madame Bonnard, the eccentric a …
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Christina Stead: I’m Dying Laughing
Christina Stead’s unforgettable final novela profound examination of love and radicalism during the Mc Carthy era In the wake of the Great Depression, Emily Wilkes, a young American journalist, trave …
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Christina Stead: Letty Fox
From Paris to London to wartime New York, a young woman comes of age—and comes apart—in this witty novel by the author of The Man Who Loved Children. When Letty Fox first arrives i …
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Christina Stead: Man Who Loved Children
“This crazy, gorgeous family novel” written at the end of the Great Depression “is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century” (Jonathan Franzen, The New …
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Christina Stead: Letty Fox: Her Luck
‘Letty Fox: Her Luck is a fully achieved comic novel of a most original kind’ ANGELA CARTER. One hot night last spring, after waiting fruitlessly for a call from my then lover, with whom I had quarre …
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Christina Stead: Man Who Loved Children
All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollit’s children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road… Sam and Henny Pollit …
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