Library of Wales: All Things Betray Thee: Volume 31: v. 31 - Softcover

Thomas, Gwyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908069732 ISBN 13: 9781908069733

Publisher: Parthian Books, 2011

Synopsis

With passion, humour and remarkable insight, Gwyn Thomas captures the world of south Wales in the 1830s during the turbulent years of the Merthyr and Newport Risings. This is a new edition of a novel first published in 1949, with an introduction by Raymond Williams.,Nofel gan Gwyn Thomas am dde Cymru yn ystod y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg, cyfnod Terfysg Merthyr a Merched Beca. Argraffiad newydd o nofel a gyhoeddwyd gyntaf ym 1949. Rhagair gan Raymond Williams. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

About this title

About the Author

Gwyn Thomas was born into a large and boisterous family in Porth, in the Rhondda Valley, in 1913. After a scholarship to Porth County School he went to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read Spanish. Mass unemployment and widespread poverty in South Wales deepened his radicalism. After working for the Workers’ Educational Association he became a teacher, first in Cardigan and from 1942 in Barry. In 1962 he left teaching and concentrated on writing and broadcasting. His many published works of fiction include The Dark Philosophers (1946); The Alone to the Alone (1947); All Things Betray Thee (1949); The World Cannot Hear You (1951) and Now Lead Us Home (1952). He also wrote several collections of short stories, six stage plays and the autobiography A Few Selected Exits (1968). He died in 1981. -- Publisher: Parthian Books

Edition details

• Publisher: Parthian Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908069732
• ISBN 13: 9781908069733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350