Lark Rise to Candleford - Hardcover

Thompson, Flora

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192117599 ISBN 13: 9780192117595

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1979

Synopsis

`The hamlet stood on a gentle rise in the flat, wheat-growing north-east corner of Oxfordshire. We will call it Lark Rise because of the great number of skylarks which made the surrounding fields their springboard and nested on the bare earth between the rows of green corn.' So begins Flora Thompson's famous portrait of her childhood in the 1870s in a tiny Oxfordshire hamlet. Her delightful memories, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, evoke in affectionate detail a cherished world now lost.

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Review

This gorgeous gift edition of the classic...will be treasured by a new generation of readers. (Family History Monthly)

About the Author

FLORA THOMPSON was born in 1876. After leaving school she worked for the Post Office before marrying John Thompson. In the early years she supplemented their income with journalism and a collection of poems appeared in 1921, but she is best remembered for her autobiographical trilogy LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD. She died in 1947.

DAME JUDI DENCH, OBE, is one of Britain's foremost actresses, and her films include MRS BROWN, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE and THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192117599
• ISBN 13: 9780192117595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576