Over the Gate

Miss Read

ISBN 10: 0718102916 / ISBN 13: 9780718102913

Edité par Michael Joseph Ltd, 1964

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Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. An acceptable condition book. An ex-library rebind with the dust jacket incorporated and the usual amount of stamps. Small splits to the spine ends. The textblock is well-thumbed at the edges with a little age and dust, but the contents remain reliably bound and perfectly legible. Fine for use as a reading and reference copy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Over the Gate
• Éditeur: Michael Joseph Ltd
• Date de parution: 1964
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0718102916
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780718102913
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: Acceptable
• Poids: 360 grammes

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Synopsis

Over the Gate

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.