The Montforts
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few novels capture the sweep of colonial ambition and its quiet devastations quite like The Montforts, Martin Boyd's richly textured chronicle of an Anglo-Australian family navigating the turbulent currents of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the sprawling Montfort dynasty — restless, proud, and perpetually caught between the Old World and the New — Boyd traces the inheritance of privilege, disappointment, and longing that passes through each generation like a recurring fever, as his characters shuttle between England and Australia in pursuit of identity, belonging, and social prestige. Boyd writes with a delicate, ironic intelligence that distinguishes him as one of Australia's most sophisticated literary voices, capable of exposing the pretensions of the Anglo-Australian gentry with both affection and unsparing clarity. First published in 1928, The Montforts anticipates the celebrated Langton tetralogy for which Boyd is best remembered, and stands as a formative work in the tradition of Australian literary fiction — raising the enduring question of whether a family shaped by two worlds can ever truly belong to either.
Author: Martin Boyd
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few novels capture the sweep of colonial ambition and its quiet devastations quite like The Montforts, Martin Boyd's richly textured chronicle of an Anglo-Australian family navigating the turbulent currents of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the sprawling Montfort dynasty — restless, proud, and perpetually caught between the Old World and the New — Boyd traces the inheritance of privilege, disappointment, and longing that passes through each generation like a recurring fever, as his characters shuttle between England and Australia in pursuit of identity, belonging, and social prestige. Boyd writes with a delicate, ironic intelligence that distinguishes him as one of Australia's most sophisticated literary voices, capable of exposing the pretensions of the Anglo-Australian gentry with both affection and unsparing clarity. First published in 1928, The Montforts anticipates the celebrated Langton tetralogy for which Boyd is best remembered, and stands as a formative work in the tradition of Australian literary fiction — raising the enduring question of whether a family shaped by two worlds can ever truly belong to either.