The Cardboard Crown
Text Classics
$17.34
- Paperback
266 pages
- Release Date
24 October 2012
Summary
Introduced by Brenda Niall
This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of the lost classics of Australian literature. Martin Boyd is a deeply humane novelist, a writer of family sagas without peer. Set in Australia and England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, The Cardboard Crown presents an unforgettable portrait of an upper middle-class family who love both countries but are not quite at home in either.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922079411 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1922079413 |
| Author: | Martin Boyd |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | Text Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 266 |
| Release Date: | 24 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 198mm x 130mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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‘A spirited and highly accomplished novel, done with the most engaging liveliness and intelligence.’
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About The Author
Martin Boyd
Martin Boyd was born in Switzerland in 1893 of Anglo-Australian parents. At six months he was brought to Australia, where the Boyd family made impressive contributions to the artistic and intellectual life. At the outbreak of the first world war he travelled to England and joined an English regiment and later the Royal Flying Corps. In 1948, at the height of his literary success, he returned to Australia to make a home near Berwick but lived the last 15 years of his life in Rome (1957-1972). Most of his novels maintain an Anglo-Australian theme. Martin Boyd moved to Rome in 1957 and lived there till his death in 1972.
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