A Horseman Riding By: Volume 3: The Green Gauntlet - Softcover

R. F. Delderfield

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671788698 ISBN 13: 9780671788698

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1975

Synopsis

R. F. Delderfield concludes his bestselling A Horseman Riding By saga of twentieth-century England with a novel that follows the Craddock family through the end of World War II and the challenges of a new era

Paul Craddock's village in rural Devon has endured despite the heartbreak and sorrows of war. The landowner and his family have also known their share of loss. But now, as England struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II, he and his wife, Claire, and their children confront new perils. With his livelihood threatened by emerging property laws and his family divided over the future of his beloved Shallowford estate, Craddock struggles to preserve his legacy. For his sons and daughter, the fifties and sixties will be a time of discovery and change that will resonate in the lives of their own children.

The final novel in Delderfield's magnificent trilogy pays tribute to the courage and unflagging optimism of British villagers trying to keep step with modern times even as they cling to the traditions of a bygone world.

The Green Gauntlet is the third novel in R. F. Delderfield's saga A Horseman Riding By, which begins with Long Summer Day and continues with Post of Honour.

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Review

"Sheer, wonderful storytelling." --"Chicago Tribune""[Delderfield] built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett." --"Life""Delderfield's manner is easy, modest, heartwarming." --"Evening Standard""A born storyteller." --"Sunday Mirror"

Sheer, wonderful storytelling. "Chicago Tribune" [Delderfield] built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett. "Life" Delderfield s manner is easy, modest, heartwarming. "Evening Standard" A born storyteller. "Sunday Mirror""

"Sheer, wonderful storytelling." --Chicago Tribune

"[Delderfield] built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett." --Life

"Delderfield's manner is easy, modest, heartwarming." --Evening Standard

"A born storyteller." --Sunday Mirror

From the Publisher

This series is one of the jewels on the Hodder & Stoughton
list. Hugely popular in the sixties, seventies and eighties, Delderfield's
novels were bestsellers wherever they were read and they spawned numerous
television dramatisations. He was one of England's greatest writers, who
deserves to be remembered and his books read and re-read, well into the
future.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671788698
• ISBN 13: 9780671788698
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback