Martin Boyd

The Cardboard Crown

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A lost classic of Australian literature. Boyd is a deeply humane novelist, a writer of family sagas without peer.

Produktdetails

• Langton Quartet
• Verlag: TEXT PUB CO
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 127mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9781922079411
• ISBN-10: 1922079413
• Artikelnr.: 36725438

Autorenporträt

Martin Boyd was born in Switzerland in 1893 into a family that was to achieve fame in the Australian arts. His first novel, Love Gods, was published in 1925. Three years later The Montforts appeared, under the pseudonym Martin Mills. International success came with Lucinda Brayford, followed by the Langton Quartet: The Cardboard Crown, A Difficult Young Man, Outbreak of Love and When Blackbirds Sing. In 1957 he went to Rome, where he lived and continued to write until his death in 1972.