For Love Alone

For Love Alone

Copyright Holder (Photos)Jacqueline Mitelman
Introduction byDrusilla Modjeska
Copyright Holder (Introduction/Prologue)Drusilla Modjeska
PublisherMelbourne University Publishing Limited
Copyright Holder (Text)Christina Stead
Cover Art byMiriam Rosenbloom
Typeset byTypeSkill
Printed byGriffin Press
ImprintThe Miegunyah Press
Text DesignPeter Long
Author photo/portraitJacqueline Mitelman
Cover/Jacket Design byMiriam Rosenbloom
First Published byHarcourt Brace & Company
Copyright Holder (Design)Melbourne University Publishing Limited
Copyright HolderEstate of Christina Stead
Publisher SeriesMiegunyah Modern Library
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationAustralia
Copyright1946
This Edition Published2011
Copyright2011
Reprinted2011
Pages / Font575 pages
Barcode9 780522 853704
ISBN978-0-522-85370-4
Dewey Decimal Classification NumberA823.2
ChaptersIntroduction Sea People The Island Continent 1. Brown Seaweed and Old Fish Nets 2. The Countless Flaming Eyes of the Flesh 3. Malfi's Wedding 4. She Had 5. It Was High Tide at Nine-thirty 6. Lance with His Head in His Hand 7. Leo Was Lost in Roaring Slumber 8. It Was the Hot Intolerable Hour 9. The Deed Was Extreme 10. Mr Jonathan Crow Who Coached in Latin 11. Coming Along in the Blowy Dark 12. A Train For Narara, Fifty Miles North 13. Air of Pride, Fire, and Water 14. There Are Many Abandoned Orchards in the Valley 15. At No Cost to Himself 16. A Girl Without a Coat and with Smooth Bare Head 17. The Embarkation for Life 18. Innuendos of Love 19. Property Is Everything 20. The Infernal Compact with Herself 21. Love Is Feared: It Dissolves Society 22. Still Three Years to Go 23. A Photograph from the Tyrol 24. "So Haggard and So Woebegone" Port of Registry: London 25. After Two Days of Yachting Weather 26. I Sit Around in Teashops 27. Five or Six Unopened Letters 28. You Do Not Stand Anywhere 29. Regular Nights 30. James Quick Lived in a Flat in Mayfair 31. Modern Is as Modern Does 32. Several Off-colour stories 33. A Deserted Saw Mill 34. Aurea Mediocritas 35. Signs of the Misogynist 36. A Fury of Only Half-spent Words 37. At the Altars of Antique Churches 38. Down the Flowering Lanes 39. Many Men Came to See Them in Fleet Street 40. "Today Put on Perfection" 41. I Am Thinking I Am Free
NotesThe Miegunyah Press an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing Limited First published in 1945 by Harcourt, Brace & Company This edition published 2011 Reprinted 2011 Text © Christina Stead, 1946, © Estate of Christina Stead, 2011 Introduction © Drusilla Modjeska, 2011 Design and typography © Melbourne University Publishing Limited, 2011 Text design by Peter Long Typeset by TypeSkill Cover design and illustration by Miriam Rosenbloom Printed by Griffin Press in South Australia Cover design and illustration by Miriam Rosenbloom Author photograph © Jacqueline Mitelman; courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia
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