{"product_id":"the-beauties-and-furies-text-classics-christina-stead-9781925355703","title":"The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Margaret Harris\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChristina 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christina Stead","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46462785192179,"sku":"9781925355703","price":14.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781925355703.jpg?v=1732907970","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-beauties-and-furies-text-classics-christina-stead-9781925355703","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}