Modelled on the form of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", "The Salzburg Tales" contains a series of interlinked stories and fables. The narrators are gathered for the famous festival at Salzburg: the Festival Director, a Viennese conductor, a Scottish doctor, an archbishop and a dull English bore are among the characters who pass the time in telling fantastic and unusual tales. Christina Stead's intelligent writing is displayed at its best in this ambitious collection, which was first published in 1934.
- ISBN10 0571274722
- ISBN13 9780571274727
- Publish Date 9 December 2010
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 10 June 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 498
- Language English