Lisa at ANZLITLOVERS organised a week honouring Christina Stead. I’m swamped at the moment, but I ordered Ocean of Story: the Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead. Since it’s OOP, there wasn’t much information out there, but my copy arrived and here’s the contents of this 552 page book:
1: The Early Years: Australia
The Old School
The Milk Run
A Little Demon
2: Apprentice Writer
A Night in the Indian Ocean
La Toussaint
O, If I Could But Shiver!
About the House
Uncle Morgan at the Nats
3: Pre-War Europe
The Azhdanov Sailors
Private Matters
Lost American
4: New York
Life is Difficult
A Harmless Affair
I Live in You
My Friend, Lafe Tilly
An Iced Cake with Cherries
UNO
The Fathers
5: Post War Europe
The Captains’ House
Yac, Yac
The Hotel-Keeper’s Story
A Household
The Woman in the Bed
The Boy
Trains
6: England
Street Idyll
1954: Days of the Roomers
A Routine
Accents
7: Biographical and Autobiographical
A Waker and a Dreamer
A Writer’s Friends
Les Amoureux
Another View of the Homestead
Did it Sell?
The Magic Woman and Other Stories
Afterword from R. G. Geering, literary executor and life-long friend.
This post is created for anyone else out there interested in the contents of this book. My review of The Little Hotel is here.
His Futile Preoccupations ..... 
Well, that’s a feast of reading… but… oh dear… that photo! It’s not very enticing for a book cover, is it?
A bit grim…
What edition is this? I agree mine is much better, though very dark. Perhaps they decided it didn’t catch readers’ – oops buyers’ I mean – attention. I’m sure I wouldn’t have noticed it if it weren’t for the catchy author’s name.