Flora Thompson

Lark Rise to Candleford (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An autobiography of "Laura" - as the author calls herself - which describes in detail her delightful life in a country village. Her self-sufficient world of farm labourers and craftsmen working to the rhythms of the seasons and enjoying their traditional festivities is preserved for readers in this interesting and entertaining narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Upfront
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781773232829
• Artikelnr.: 54401671

Autorenporträt

Flora Thompson was born in 1876 in Juniper Hill in Oxfordshire, the rural hamlet that she describes in Lark Rise. She was a bookish child who dreamt of being a writer. Her mother taught her to read before she started at the village school. She left school at fourteen to work as an assistant postmistress. She married in 1903 and moved to Bournemouth where she started writing her famous trilogy in her 60s. The three books were published between 1939 and 1943. Thompson died in 1947.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Note on the Text
Further Reading
A Chronology of Flora Thompson
Lark Rise
Over to Candleford
Candleford Green

Rezensionen

Lark Rise to Candleford is remarkable for its celebratory realism. It neither romanticises poverty nor underplays it Richard Mabey Guardian