The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

Lark Rise to Candleford (Penguin Modern Classics)

Lark Rise to Candleford (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Flora Thompson (Author), Flora Thompson (Author), Richard Mabey (Introduction)

  • New

    Paperback 2008

    $11.98

  • Used

    Paperback 1973

    $3.30
Synopsis

Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing "Lark Rise", "Over To Candleford" and "Candleford Green", is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town - is based on the author's experiences during childhood and youth. It chronicles May Day celebrations and forgotten children's games, the daily lives of farmworkers and craftsmen, friends and relations - all painted with a gaiety and freshness of observation that make this trilogy an evocative and sensitive memorial to Victorian rural England. With a new introduction by Richard Mabey

$11.98

Save:$0.74 (6%)

Quantity

17 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 544
 Edition: UK ed.
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 04 Dec 2008
ISBN 10: 0141183314
ISBN 13: 9780141183312

Author Bio
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). RICHARD MABEY is the author of some thirty books, including Whistling in the Dark: In Pursuit of the Nightingale, Beechcombings: the narratives of Trees, the ground-breaking and best-selling cultural flora Flora Britannica, and Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award. His recent memoir Nature Cure was short-listed for three major literary awards. He writes for the Independent, the Guardian, Resurgence and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He lives in Norfolk, in the Waveney Valley.