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A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters (1928-1973) by Christina Stead
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing
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
Talking into the Typewriter: Selected Letters (1973-1983) by Christina Stead
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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 the outside world and became the focus of her writing energies. Stead was a vivacious, funny, erudite, expansive and witty correspondent. It was a practic ...Show more
The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics by Christina Stead
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian 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 Puzzleheaded Girl (Text Classics) by Christina Stead
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
" 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-old Honor Lawrence is out of place at the bank where she works. When she refuses to accept a promotion, despite her obvious poverty, her mentor, Augustus Debrett, doesn't ...Show more
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