The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics

Author(s): Christina Stead

Fiction

"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 the little naked trees which marked the horizon-searching roads. It is 1934, and Elvira Western has left London and her dull marriage to Paul, a doctor, for Paris and her waiting lover, Oliver, a student radical. But drab hotels and interminable discussions of politics are not her idea of romance, and soon Elvira is wishing she could leave the city of many beauties:and furies', and return home...Christina Stead's second novel dramatises a love triangle against a backdrop of political upheaval. Its publication in 1936 prompted a writer for the New Yorker to call Stead the most extraordinary woman novelist' since Virginia Woolf."


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781925355703
  • : The Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing
  • : 0.264
  • : October 2016
  • : 198mm X 128mm
  • : October 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 512
  • : Paperback
  • : Christina Stead