The Cardboard Crown
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In this brilliant opening movement of the celebrated Langton Tetralogy, acclaimed Anglo-Australian chronicler Martin Boyd introduces readers to the glamorous, deeply conflicted world of a patrician family torn between two hemispheres. The narrative unfolds through the discovery of the intimate, decades-old diaries of the family matriarch, Alice Langton, which are unraveled by her grandson Guy in a quest to understand his heritage. Moving effortlessly between the sun-drenched pastoral expanses of pre-Federation Australia and the rigid, aristocratic drawing rooms of Victorian Europe, the plot lays bare the secret passions, financial instabilities, and cultural anxieties of an elite class caught between the old world and the new. The Cardboard Crown stands as a monumental achievement in twentieth-century Australian literature, offering an unmatched, sophisticated exploration of the colonial search for identity. Boyd's distinctive style seamlessly weaves sparkling, Edwardian comedy of manners with a deeply melancholic, Proustian meditation on the passage of time and the decay of ancestral houses. For collectors of classic Australian fiction and readers drawn to complex family dynamics, this elegant Lansdowne Press edition serves as an essential and exquisite window into the nation's literary heritage.
Author: Martin Boyd
Format: Paperback
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In this brilliant opening movement of the celebrated Langton Tetralogy, acclaimed Anglo-Australian chronicler Martin Boyd introduces readers to the glamorous, deeply conflicted world of a patrician family torn between two hemispheres. The narrative unfolds through the discovery of the intimate, decades-old diaries of the family matriarch, Alice Langton, which are unraveled by her grandson Guy in a quest to understand his heritage. Moving effortlessly between the sun-drenched pastoral expanses of pre-Federation Australia and the rigid, aristocratic drawing rooms of Victorian Europe, the plot lays bare the secret passions, financial instabilities, and cultural anxieties of an elite class caught between the old world and the new. The Cardboard Crown stands as a monumental achievement in twentieth-century Australian literature, offering an unmatched, sophisticated exploration of the colonial search for identity. Boyd's distinctive style seamlessly weaves sparkling, Edwardian comedy of manners with a deeply melancholic, Proustian meditation on the passage of time and the decay of ancestral houses. For collectors of classic Australian fiction and readers drawn to complex family dynamics, this elegant Lansdowne Press edition serves as an essential and exquisite window into the nation's literary heritage.