{"product_id":"the-beauties-and-furies-text-classics","title":"The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics","description":"Introduction 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":"Christina Stead","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516772974653,"sku":null,"price":14.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781925355703.jpg?v=1787572637","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-beauties-and-furies-text-classics","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}