The Cardboard Crown - (Text Classics) by Martin Boyd (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A lost classic of Australian literature. Boyd is a deeply humane novelist, a writer of family sagas without peer.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A rueful, cheerfully savage novel . . . lit with unearthly fires and enchantments.--<i>The New York Times</i></p><p>It is 1949, and Guy Langton's house--like his family's fortunes--has seen better days. But when Guy finds his grandmother's diaries he chances on an intricate web of deception and reveals the complex fate of his family over three generations.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Martin Boyd was born in Switzerland in 1893 into a family that was to achieve fame in the Australian arts. His first novel, <i>Love Gods</i>, was published in 1925. Three years later <i>The Montforts</i> appeared, under the pseudonym Martin Mills. International success came with <i>Lucinda Brayford</i>, followed by the Langton Quartet: <i>The Cardboard Crown, A Difficult Young Man, Outbreak of Love</i> and <i>When Blackbirds Sing</i>. In 1957 he went to Rome, where he lived and continued to write until his death in 1972. <p/>
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