Lark Rise to Candleford : 2 plays - Softcover

Thompson, Flora; Introduction By H. J. Massingham; Illustrated By Julie Neild

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091427819 ISBN 13: 9780091427818

Publisher: Book Club Edition, 1980

Synopsis

Excerpt abundance of such foods, and even the poor enjoyed a rough plenty.' The last words are true of the hamlet of Lark Rise. Because they were still an organic community, subsisting on the food, however scanty and monotonous, they raised themselves, they enjoyed good health and so, in spite of grinding poverty, no money to spend on amusements and hardly any for necessities, happiness. They still sang out-of-doors and kept May Day and Harvest Home. The songs were travesties of the traditional ones, but their blurred echoes and the remnants of the old salty country speech had not yet died and left the fields to their modern silence. The songs came from their own lips, not out of a box. Charity (in the old sense) survived, and what Laura's mother called the 'seemliness' of a too industrious life. Yet the tradition of the old order was crumbling fast. What suffered most visibly was the inborn aesthetic faculty, once a common possession of all countrymen. Almanacs for samplers, the 'Present from Brighton Flora Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.

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About the Author

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Book Club Edition
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091427819
• ISBN 13: 9780091427818
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1