{"product_id":"9781925355703","title":"The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics","description":"Author: Stead, Christina\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925355703\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Oct 2016\u003cbr\u003ePages: 512 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Margaret Harris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48171381751966,"sku":"UBD-9781925355703","price":14.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925355703.jpg?v=1787219877","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925355703","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}