Village Affairs - Couverture rigide

Read, Miss

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0395264820 ISBN 13 : 9780395264829

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1978

Synopsis

First american edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean. DJ has a few edge tears with light toning and a few marks.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Miss Read, or in real life Dora Saint, was a teacher by profession who started writing after the second world war, beginning with light essays written for Punch and other journals. She then wrote on educational and country matters and worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC. Miss Read was married to a schoolmaster for sixty-four years until his death in 2004, and they had one daughter.

Miss Read was awarded an MBE in the 1998 New Year Honours list for her services to literature, She was the author of many immensely popular books, including two autobiographical works, but it was her novels of English rural life for which she was best known. The first of these Village School, was published in 1955, and Miss Read continued to write about the fictional villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green for many years. She lived near Newbury in Berkshire until her death in 2012.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village.

The English village of Fairacre may appear idyllically peaceful to passersby, but those who live among its shady lanes always have problems to untangle. When a terrible rumor emerges — that the Fairacre School is to be closed and the children bused to nearby Beech Green — the village is up in arms at once. The schoolmistress, Miss Read, suffers agonizing indecision at the prospect, and her situation is made worse when her infants’ room teacher decides to leave and the short-tempered Mrs. Pringle becomes more contrary than ever.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0395264820
• ISBN 13: 9780395264829
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais