Lark Rise - Couverture rigide

Thompson, Flora

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781392250 ISBN 13 : 9781781392256

Editeur : Benediction Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Thompson Flora

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The last words are true of the hamlet of Lark Rise. Because they were still an organic community, subsisting on the food, however scanty and monotonous, they raised themselves, they enjoyed good health and so, in spite of grinding poverty, no money to spend on amusements and hardly any for necessities, happiness. They still sang out-of-doors and kept May Day and Harvest Home. The songs were travesties of the traditional ones, but their blurred echoes and the remnants of the old salty country speech had not yet died and left the fields to their modern silence. The songs came from their own lips, not out of a box. Charity (in the old sense) survived, and what Laura's mother called the 'seemliness' of a too industrious life. Yet the tradition of the old order was crumbling fast. What suffered most visibly was the inborn aesthetic faculty, once a common possession of all countrymen.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire, Flora Thompson left school at 14 to work in the local post office. She married young, and wrote mass-market fiction to help support her increasing family. In her 60s she published the semi-autobiographical trilogy combined as Lark Rise to Candleford (1945).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Benediction Classics
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1781392250
• ISBN 13: 9781781392256
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 332