Lark Rise to Candleford - Couverture souple

Thompson, Flora

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141183314 ISBN 13 : 9780141183312

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing "Lark Rise", "Over To Candleford" and "Candleford Green", is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town - is based on the author's experiences during childhood and youth. It chronicles May Day celebrations and forgotten children's games, the daily lives of farmworkers and craftsmen, friends and relations - all painted with a gaiety and freshness of observation that make this trilogy an evocative and sensitive memorial to Victorian rural England. It comes with a new introduction by Richard Mabey.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Flora Thompson was born in 1876 at Juniper Hill, a hamlet on the Oxfordshire-Northamptonshire border described in Lark Rise. After leaving school at the age of fourteen, she was sent to assist the village postmistress, who also kept the smithy, and appears prominently in Candleford Green. After her marriage she moved to Bournemouth, and it was there that she started to write. The trilogy of Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford (1941), and Candleford Green (1943) was followed by a fourth autobiographical volume, Still Glides the Stream (1948), published the after Flora Thompson's death in Devon in May 1947.

Revue de presse :

This gorgeous gift edition of the classic...will be treasured by a new generation of readers. (Family History Monthly)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0141183314
• ISBN 13: 9780141183312
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 544