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'From the beginning Christina Stead’s fiction divided critical opinion, and reactions to The Beauties and Furies, her second novel, were no exception. Where some saw “garrulous pretentiousness”, Clifton Fadiman in the New Yorker found “such streaming imagination, such tireless wit, such intellectual virtuosity” that Stead must be recognised as “the most extraordinary woman novelist produced by the English-speaking race since Virginia Woolf”. ...'
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Guide to the Classics : Christina Stead’s The Beauties and Furies
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- The Beauties and Furies 1936 single work novel
- For Love Alone 1944 single work novel
- Seven Poor Men of Sydney 1934 single work novel
- House of All Nations 1938 single work novel
- The Man Who Loved Children 1940 single work novel
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