Bøker av Christina Stead

Surrounded by a family notable for its size, eccentricity and marital irregularities, Letty grows up with one aim - marriage. She learns that social survival depends on winning and keeping a man, and amidst the bustle of New York and London in the 30s and 40s, relentlessly pursues her aim.

Letty Fox talks us through her search for marital bliss in 1930s New York and London.

A sardonic commentary on men and women on the make whose sexual appetites wickedly mirror the materialism of twentieth-century America.

Contains a series of interlinked stories and fables.

Home from the Second World War, Edward Massine rests contentedly in the ample bosom of his family: doting aunts, eccentric uncles and many cousins - comfortable, indolent Liberals of the old school. Theirs is a delightful world of holidays, animals and afternoon tea.

Reynard Langrish befriends a young army officer who talks of a 'state of emergency'. Reynard agrees to undertake military training with him, but as he becomes more deeply involved he is drawn into a struggle with mysterious and irrational forces which are to threaten his sanity.

Tells the story of a private European bank and the rich mixture of high-stakes gamblers, tax evaders, and shady speculators, all united by their love of money. Set in the Paris of the interwar period, this novel explores the intrigues, swindles, and manipulations of international finance.

Honor Lawrence is a young New York filing clerk whose motives her mentor, Augustus Debrett, finds impossible to understand. Her obvious poverty is so embarrassing for the New England elite of her acquaintance that they prefer to imagine scandal in its place.

Elvira Western, a dark English beauty, is solidly and boringly married to bourgeois doctor Paul. On a whim she runs away to Paris to meet her student lover Oliver: tall, thin and romantic, the embodiment of every woman's dream. But life is not as Elvira imagined it would be.

Eleanor Herbert Brent is a beautiful woman - tall, blond and athletic. Sexuality forms her personality and as a young English graduate on the loose in London, she savours the capacity to excite - and sleep with - every man she meets.

High-minded, independent, imaginative, Teresa Hawkins knows only one commandment 'Thou shalt love'. Obsessed with love and sex she pins her affection on the first possible object, the egotistical Jonathan Crow, a poverty-stricken tutor who coaches her in Latin.