<div>From Paris to London to wartime New York, a young woman comes of age&mdash;and comes apart&mdash;in this witty novel by the author of The Man Who Loved Children. When Letty Fox first arrives in Manhattan, her goal is to escape her chaotic upbringing in London and Paris and the cynicism of her family, and create a fresh new start. This will be the existence she dreamed of&mdash;flitting from affair to affair, debating social issues over martinis, and finishing that novel about Robespierre that will make her envied by all the right people. Yet, Letty is at odds with both the city and herself: sexually adventurous yet fidgety for lasting romance, radically independent yet conservative, as likely to be betrayed by friends as she is to betray. And when Letty runs through the streets of Greenwich Village, it&rsquo;s as much to unleash her glorious appetite for life as it is to suppress the &ldquo;black moods&rdquo; that always threaten to derail it. &ldquo;No wonder [Christina Stead&rsquo;s] work has reminded many of Tolstoy, Ibsen, Joyce,&rdquo; said the New York Times Book Review. When this poisonously funny satire of the American bourgeoisie was first published in 1947, it was banned in the author&rsquo;s native Australia, and met with alarm by stateside critics for its moral ambiguity. Ahead of its time with its vibrant and furious heroine, it is destined for rediscovery. From an author Saul Bellow called &ldquo;really marvelous,&rdquo; Letty Fox is a &ldquo;merciless, cruel, and magnificently unforgiving&rdquo; comedy of manners (Angela Carter, London Review of Books).</div>

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Letty Fox

<div>One woman&rsquo;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 life in Australia and moves to London in search of her destiny. After years of emotional distance within her family, and despite her na&iuml;vet&eacute; of the vagaries of heartache, Teresa dedicates her life to the commandment &ldquo;thou shalt love.&rdquo; Affection-starved and painfully vulnerable, she immediately focuses her affections on Jonathan Crow, her egotistical and indifferent Latin tutor. But it&rsquo;s only through another man, an entirely unexpected influence on her life, that Teresa will gain a full consciousness of her own sexuality and identity as a woman. For Love Alone is a powerful novel written in an original voice&mdash;a feat of literary narrative by one of the twentieth century&rsquo;s finest writers.</div>

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For Love Alone

<div>The devious world of international finance comes alive in Christina Stead&rsquo;s enthralling epic about a ruthless bank director in 1930s Paris Praised as &ldquo;a work of extraordinary talent&rdquo; by the New York Times, Christina Stead&rsquo;s ambitiously layered House of All Nations is an engrossing satire of wealth and manipulation. Set in an elite European bank in the 1930s, Stead&rsquo;s epic spans the interwar years of a money-hungry Paris. Jules Bertillon, the distrustful and unpredictable bank director, sees every national disaster&mdash;including war&mdash;as an opportunity for riches. Adored by his clients for his ability to rake in staggering profits, Bertillon leaves no opening wasted&mdash;even if it means dealing with unsavory speculators or ruthless gamblers while his clients suffer the consequences. A stunning page-turner, House of All Nations is as significant and resonant today as it was upon its publication in 1938.</div>

House of All Nations

<div>At the Hotel Swiss-Touring, both the guests and the staff get tangled in intrigues and veiled confessions &ldquo;If you knew what happens in the hotel every day!&rdquo; Madame Bonnard, the eccentric and inquisitive owner of the Hotel Swiss-Touring&mdash;a third-rate Swiss hotel&mdash;knows her guests&rsquo; many secrets, things they wouldn&rsquo;t tell their friends, family, or lawyers. They come from all over Europe in the wake of World War II, seeking refuge from their countries or their own bruised hearts. Madame Bonnard reigns over &ldquo;Mayor of B&rdquo; from Belgium, two guests posing as cousins, a doctor&rsquo;s wife who is certain her husband is trying to slowly poison her, and Clara, a power-hungry staff member. Based on Stead&rsquo;s experiences living in European hotels, The Little Hotel is a captivating portrait of what happens when strangers&mdash;and their desires, lies, and fears&mdash;live in close quarters.</div>

The Little Hotel

<div>Christina Stead&rsquo;s unforgettable final novel&mdash;a profound examination of love and radicalism during the McCarthy era In the wake of the Great Depression, Emily Wilkes, a young American journalist, travels to a Europe still scarred by World War I. During her crossing, she meets Stephen Howard, a charismatic and wealthy Communist who quickly converts Emily to his ideals when the two become lovers. Upon their return to the States, they marry and settle into a comfortable life in Hollywood as darlings of the American left. Emily shines as a screenwriter and novelist while Stephen dedicates himself to the Party line&mdash;but their radicalism soon finds them out of favor and retreating to Paris, where they tragically and bitterly unravel. Published posthumously by Christina Stead&rsquo;s literary executor professor Ron Geering, I&rsquo;m Dying Laughing is an unflinching look at political faith and romantic attachment.</div>

I'm Dying Laughing

<div>&ldquo;This crazy, gorgeous family novel&rdquo; written at the end of the Great Depression &ldquo;is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century&rdquo; (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times). First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell&rsquo;s eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life. In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much&mdash;too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and chilling charisma, Sam torments and manipulates his children in an esoteric world of his own imagining. Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at the root of her husband&rsquo;s behavior. And Louie, the damaged, precocious adolescent girl at the center of their clashes, is the &ldquo;ugly duckling&rdquo; whose struggle will transfix contemporary readers. Named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by Newsweek, Stead&rsquo;s semiautobiographical work reads like a Depression-era The Glass Castle. In the New York Times, Jonathan Franzen wrote of this classic, &ldquo;I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn&rsquo;t read the book so much as live it.&rdquo; </div>

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Books By Christina Stead (6 Books)

Letty Fox

For Love Alone

House of All Nations

The Little Hotel

I'm Dying Laughing

The Man Who Loved Children

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Letty Fox

For Love Alone

House of All Nations

The Little Hotel

I'm Dying Laughing

The Man Who Loved Children

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