Young Emma (Library of Wales): 40 - Softcover

W. H. Davies

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910409456 ISBN 13: 9781910409459

Publisher: Parthian Books, 2015

Synopsis

At the age of fifty, towards the end of the First World War, W. H. Davies decided that he must marry. Spurning London society and the literary circles where he had been lionised since the publication of his Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, he set about looking for the right partner on the streets of London.

Young Emma is a moving and revealing memoir told with disarming honesty and humour. Davies records his life with three women: from his affair with Bella, the wife of a Sergeant Major, to his year-long liaison with the gentle Louise, to the turbulent brushes with a society woman who fears for her own life at his hands. He finally meets Emma, then pregnant, at a bus-stop on the Edgware Road. This is the story of their love affair.

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Review:

Davies is a master of...structure and voice. Young Emma is structured like a novel, paced perfectly, the development of the plot unfolding with a careful hand.

Wales Arts Review

''Young Emma is a masterpiece, and stranger than any fiction''

--Sunday Telegraph

''Classic... remarkable... an extraordinary manuscript''

--The Observer

''An extraordinary memoir destined to become a classic''

--Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

W. H. Davies (1871-1940) was a Welsh poet and writer who spent a significant part of his life as a vagabond in the United Kingdom and United States. He began publishing his own poetry in 1905 and became a popular poet in his time, mixing with leading figures of society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Parthian Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1910409456
• ISBN 13: 9781910409459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132