Christina Stead Reader

by Christina Stead, Jean B Read (Editor)

This reader comprises excerpts from
*The Salzburg Tales
*Seven Poor Men of Sydney
*The Beauties and the Furies
*House of All Nations
*For Love Alone
* Letty Fox: Her Luck
*A Little Tea: A Little Chat
*The People with the Dogs
*Dark Places of the Heart (Cotter's England)
*The Rightangled Creek: A Sort of Ghost Story
*Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)

Genres: Fiction

369 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

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.