With an Introduction by Randall Jarrell. Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of family life, the relations between parents and children, husbands and wives, The Man Who Loved Children, is acknowledged as a contemporary classic.

The Man Who Loved Children (Penguin Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

CHRISTINA STEAD

Contemporary

Penguin

I'm Dying Laughing (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

Penguin??Books

With an Introduction by Randall Jarrell. Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of family life, the relations between parents and children, husbands and wives, The Man Who Loved Children, is acknowledged as a contemporary classic.

The Man Who Loved Children (Twentieth Century Classics)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

For Love Alone

Genre Fiction

Angus&Robertson

The Man Who Loved Children

Angus and Robertson

Originally published in 1934, Seven Poor Men of Sydney is Christina Stead's first novel, a brilliant portrayal of a group of men and women living in Sydney in the 1920s amid conditions of poverty and social turmoil.Set against the vividly drawn backgrounds of Fisherman's (Watson's) Bay and the innercity slums, the various characters seek to resolve their individual spiritual dilemmas through politics, religion and philosophy.Their struggles, their pain and their frustrations are portrayed with consummate skill in this memorable evocation of a city and an era.

Seven Poor Men of Sydney

Sirius

The Salzburg tales

Literary

Cotter's England

Sirius / Angus & Robertson

House of All Nations

Angus & Robertson Childrens

The Little Hotel

Angus & Robertson Publishers, Australia

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