In "The cardboard crown" Mr Boyd returns to the theme of Lucinda Brayford. It is the story of an Australian woman of the last century whose need for the traditional civilisation of Europe draws her from her own country. Yet this continual attraction prevents her from taking root either in the Australian world in which she is socially pre-eminent, or in the English country home preserved from decay by the life-blood of her money; each excursion to Europe is paid for with tragedy and ends in retreat. The events and influences of her life: her elopement and marriage; an idyllic Roman interlude with a man who for her typifies European civilisation; the ironic sequel to this affair, are re-created long afterwards from a variety of sources: from her diary, in which passages of revealing emotion run like scars through its Victorian reticence; from the memories of those who knew her - notably Arthur, a colourful though not very reliable witness - and from fragments of family mythology and gossip. Each adds depth to the picture, and, in so doing, proves once again Mr Boyd's mastery at revealing the growth of character through experience.

Cardboard Crown (Langton Quartet)

Literature & Fiction

Boyd, Martin

Literary

Penguin??Books

COLONEL RODGERS,AND AUNT BABA,DRAW THEIR VITALITY FROM THEIR OUTRAGEOUSNESS; BUT THERE ARE ALSO THOSE WHO, COME MORE SUBTLY TO LIFE, SO THAT IN SPITE OF ITS SURFACE WIT, THIS BOOK,IT MAY BE SAID,IS WRITTEN AT A DEEPER LEVEL OF OBSERVATION THAN MARTIN BOYD'S PREVIOUS NOVELS.

A Difficult Young Man (Langton Quartet)

OUTBREAK OF LOVE GIVES AN AUTHENTIC PORTRAIT OF A FORGOTTEN AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY: MELBOURNEJUST BEFORE WORLD WAR I. IT CONTINUESTHE AUTHOR'S CHRONICLE OF THE ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN LANGTON FAMILY AND RE-INTRODUCES SOME OF THE CHARACTERS WHOBRIEFLY APPEARED IN THE TWO EARLIER LANGTON NOVELS, THE CARDBOARD CROWN AND A DIFFICULT YOUNGMAN. THERE IS WOLFIE THE INNOCENTLY IMMORAL MUSICIAN, DIANA HIS WIFE, FACED WITH THE PROBLEMOF LATE LOVE, MRS MONTAUBYN, HIS MISTRESS WHO INTRUDES TIPSILY INTO A BALLAT GOVERNMENT HOUSE AUNT MILDY, THE FRUSTRATED EMOTIONAL TIGRESS, AND THE BEAUTIFULLY-DRAWN YOUNG LOVERS.

Outbreak of Love

British & Irish

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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Lucinda Brayford

Contemporary

Between the wars, the inhabitants of a small Sussex village are horrified to learn that a local mansion has been sold to a family of Australians

The Picnic

THIS IS MARTIN BOYD'S SECOND AUTOBIOGRAPHY, THE FIRST BEING WRITTEN IN 1938. 'DAY OF MY DELIGHT' DEALS WITH THE LATTER PART OF HIS LIFE WHEN HE WENT TO LIVE IN ROME, WHERE HE LIVED UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1972. HE WROTE THIS BOOK TO RECTIFY SOME OF THE INACCURACIES IN HIS EARLIER BIOGRAPHY 'A SINGLE FLAME' WHEN HE DELIBERATELY INVENTED FICTIONAL CHARACTERS TO PROTECT HIMSELF FROM LIBEL. NOW ALL THE PEOPLE WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN HURT ON FIRST PUBLICATION ARE DEAD, AND MARTIN BOYD GIVES THE REAL NAMES OF THE PEOPLE.

Day of My Delight: An Anglo Australian Memoir

Viking Pr

At the outbreak of WWI, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm to enlist in the British Army. The trenches change him forever. On his return he casts off his past and discovers his integrity.

When Blackbirds Sing (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

Nuns in Jeopardy

Nuns in jeopardy

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Harvest Books

When Blackbirds Sing

Lansdowne Books

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