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  • HOUSE OF ALL NATIONS
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    HOUSE OF ALL NATIONS
    CHRISTINA STEAD
    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 Times, Christina Stead'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's epic spans ...

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  • LETTY FOX
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    LETTY FOX
    CHRISTINA STEAD
    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 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—flitting from af...

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  • THE LITTLE HOTEL
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    THE LITTLE HOTEL
    CHRISTINA STEAD
    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 and inquisitive owner of the Hotel Swiss-Touring—a third-rate Swiss hotel—knows her guests' many secrets, things they wouldn't tell their friends, family, or lawyers. They come from all over Eu...

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  • THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN
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    THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN
    CHRISTINA STEAD
    "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 York Times). First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell's eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), which compares Christi...

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  • FOR LOVE ALONE
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    FOR LOVE ALONE
    CHRISTINA STEAD
    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 life in Australia and moves to London in search of her destiny. After years of emotional distance within her family, and despite her naïveté of the vagaries of heartache, Teresa dedicates...

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  • I'M DYING LAUGHING
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    I'M DYING LAUGHING
    CHRISTINA STEAD
    Christina Stead's unforgettable final novel—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...

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