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The Salzburg Tales
The Salzburg Tales | Christina Stead
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A group of visitors to the Salzburg Festival, brought together by chance, decides to mark time by telling tales. Their fantasies, legends, tragedies, jokes and parodies come together as The Salzburg Tales. Dazzling in their richness and vitality, the tales are grounded in Christina Stead's belief that 'the story is magical . what is best about the short story [is] it is real life for everyone; and everyone can tell one'. Originally published eighty years ago, these are thoroughly modern stories that invite comparison with Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The Salzburg Tales are published here with a new introduction by Margaret Harris, Challis Professor of English Literature Emerita at the University of Sydney, and literary executor for Christina Stead.
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This book is taking longer to read than I thought, but it's worth the time invested #AusReadingMonth #austwomenwriters

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I have known nothing of the unhappy but their footsteps softly scuttling behind a distant curtain.

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My latest #AusReadingMonth book is becoming very well travelled. Today we are Christmas shopping in the city #queenvictoriabuilding #sydney

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That moment when you realise the colour you chose for your toes at today's pedicure match your current book cover 😂😂😂 #AusReadingMonth #colourcoordinatedreading 😂😂😂

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The Monkey 😂🐵😂 #ausreadingmonth #austwomenwriter

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