Lark Rise to Candleford

Thompson, Flora; Neild, Julie [Illustrator]; Massingham, H. J. [Introduction];

ISBN 10: 0192117599 / ISBN 13: 9780192117595

Edité par Oxford University Press, 1979

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N° de réf. du vendeur 0192117599-4-28282376

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Lark Rise to Candleford
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date de parution: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0192117599
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780192117595
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Neild, Julie
• État de l'article: Fair
• Poids: 30 onces

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Synopsis

`The hamlet stood on a gentle rise in the flat, wheat-growing north-east corner of Oxfordshire. We will call it Lark Rise because of the great number of skylarks which made the surrounding fields their springboard and nested on the bare earth between the rows of green corn.' So begins Flora Thompson's famous portrait of her childhood in the 1870s in a tiny Oxfordshire hamlet. Her delightful memories, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, evoke in affectionate detail a cherished world now lost.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Lark Rise to Candleford is Flora Thompson's classic evocation of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture. The trilogy of Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green tells the story of Flora's childhood and youth during the 1880s in Lark Rise, in reality Juniper Hill, the hamlet in Oxfordshire where she was born. Through the eyes of Laura, the author's fictional counterpart, Flora describes the cottages, characters, and way of life of the agricultural labourers and their families with whom she grew up; seasonal celebrations, schooling, church-going, entertainment and story-telling are described in fond and documentary detail. Later, when Laura leaves school and becomes assistant to the village postmistress, the same loving detail brings vividly to life the rural post office and its staff. This new edition of the trilogy reproduces the original wood-engravings by Julie Neild and includes a new introduction by Phillip Mallett which looks at the background to the books and their enduring popularity.