Windyridge: A Classic Yorkshire Novel - Couverture souple

Riley, Willie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 190660018X ISBN 13 : 9781906600181

Editeur : Northern Heritage Publications, 2010

Synopsis

Willie Riley's Windyridge was published to popular acclaim in 1912. A charming tale of Yorkshire village life, it is the story of Grace Holden, a young woman from London who feels the 'pull of the heather' and moves to the isolated Yorkshire village of Windyridge. Featuring a cast of Yorkshire characters as well as locations based on real Yorkshire moors and villages, Windyridge became one of the bestselling first novels of its time. Hailed as the new Cranford by critics, the book surpassed all expectations by selling 500,000 copies in its lifetime, and remained in print until 1961. Riley became a household name and was known as the 'father of Yorkshire novels'. The thirty-nine books he published in his lifetime sold over one million copies in total. This Yorkshire masterpiece has now been rediscovered and brought back into print for the first time in almost fifty years. Riley's text has been reproduced in its entirety, including the photographs of the Yorkshire landscape that appeared in the original book; indeed, part of the book's charm is in guessing which real locations the fictional villages are based upon! A new introduction by Riley scholar David M. Copeland gives an insight into the importance of this once forgotten book and the life and works of its author. Indeed, Windyridge is a classic Yorkshire novel and one to be treasured by generations of readers to come.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Windyridge for months, and my soul recognised the place and leaped to the discovery instantaneously. Yet how strange it all seems :how ridiculously fantastic !I cannot get away from that thought, and I am constantly asking myself whether Providence or Fate, or any other power with a capital letter at the beginning, is directing the move for my good, or whether it is just whimsicalness on my part, selforiginated and self-explanatory the explanation being that I am mad, as I said before. When I look back on the events of the last three days and realise that I have crossed my Rubicon and burned my boats behind me, and that I had no conscious intention of doing anything of the kind when I set out, I just gasp. If I had stayed to reason with myself I should never have had the courage to pack a few things into a bag and take a third-class ticket for Airlee at King s Cross, with the avowed intention of hearing a Yorkshire choir sing in a summer festival. Yet it seems almost prophetic as I recall the incident that I declined to take a return ticket, though, to be sure, there was no advantage in doing so :no reduction, I mean. Whether there was an advantage remains to be seen ;I verily believe I should have returned rather than have wasted that return half. I dislike waste. That was on Tuesday ;on Wednesday I went to the Town Hall and entered a new world.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northern Heritage Publications
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 190660018X
• ISBN 13: 9781906600181
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308
• Éditeur: Copeland David M.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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