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Cwmardy (Library of Wales)

Cwmardy (Library of Wales)

by Lewis Jones (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $4.93
Synopsis

The epic industrial novels of the 1930s, Cwmardy and We Live are published together here for the first time. In Cwmardy, Big Jim, collier and ex-Boer War soldier, and his partner Sian endure the impact of strikes, riots, and war, while their son Len emerges as a sharp thinker and dynamic political organizer. Len's tale is taken up in We Live, in which he is influenced by Mary, a teacher, and the Communist Party, which becomes central to his work both underground and in union politics, and to his decision to leave and fight in the Spanish Civil War. Cwmardy and We Live paint a graphic portrait of the casual exploitation, tragedy, and violence as well as the political hope and humanity of South Wales industrial workers from the 1900s to the 1930s.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 897
 Edition: Library of Wales Ed
 Publisher: Parthian Books
Published: 18 Jan 2006
ISBN 10: 1902638832
ISBN 13: 9781902638836

Media Reviews
'Lewis Jones produced two novels that remain classics of international industrial fiction and testify to the oppressed but resistant and creative character of industrial south Wales.' Stephen Knight
Author Bio
Born in Clydach Vale in 1897, Lewis Jones started work underground at twelve in the Cambrian Combine Colliery, central in the famous 1910-1911 strike culminating in the Tonypandy riots. Jones became a full-time worker for the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, and led a number of the famous hunger marches of the 1930s from Wales to London. He was elected to the Glamorgan County Council in 1936, and died in 1939, after addressing numerous public meetings in support of the Spanish Republic. Cwmardy (1937) and We Live(1939) are his two epic novels of the experience of South Wales from the 1890s to the 1930s.