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The Man Who Loved Children
novel by Stead
The Man Who Loved Children, novel by Australian writer Christina Stead, published in 1940 and revised in 1965. Although it went unrecognized for 25 years, The Man Who Loved Children is considered Steadās finest novel. Unfolding a harrowing portrait of a disintegrating family, Stead examines the hostility between a husband and wife: Sam Pollit, revealed to be a tyrannical crank far removed from the civilized man he thinks he is, whose claim to love his children lends the ironic title; and Henny, who has become a bitter virago.
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