Modern Classics Lark Rise To Candleford by Flora Thompson

This edition of the trilogy reproduces the original wood-engravings by Julie Neild and includes a new introduction by Phillip Mallet which looks at the background to the books and their enduring popularity.

Later, when Laura leaves school and becomes assistant to the village postmistress, the same loving detail brings vividly to life the rural Through the eyes of Laura, the author's fictionalĬounterpart, Flora describes the cottages, characters, and way of life of the agricultural labourers and their families with whom she grew up seasonal celebrations, schooling, church-going, entertainment and story-telling are described in fond and documentary detail.

The trilogy of Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green tells the story of Flora's childhood and youth during the 1880s in Lark Rise, in reality Juniper Hill, the hamlet in Oxfordshire where she was born. Lark Rise to Candleford is Flora Thompson's classic evocation of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture. There her eyes are opened to wider horizons.'People were poorer and had not the comforts, amusements, or knowledge we have today but they were happier.' Laura attends the village school and leaves at the age of fourteen to work for the postmistress of the village of Candleford. Whilst much is to be admired and cherished about her community, when she looks back on it as an adult she doesn't shy away from describing hardship too. An intelligent and enquiring child, she is always attentive to the way of life around her ? the lives of a farming community and nature as it transforms through the seasons, their working lives together and their celebrations. 2 In 1945, the book was republished as part of the trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford, comprising the novels Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford (1941), and Candleford Green (1943). Laura Timms spends her childhood in a country hamlet called Lark Rise. Lark Rise is a 1939 semi-autobiographical novel by the English author Flora Thompson.

This edition contains all three books ? Lark Rise, Over to Candleford and Candleford Green with an introduction by Bill Gallagher, screenwriter of the hugely popular BBC television adaptation. Modern Classics Lark Rise To Candleford ISBN 9780141037196 0141037199 by Flora Thompson - buy, sell or rent this book for the best price. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. The richness of the language, the lingering over detail and incident creates a haunting classic. Lark Rise to Candleford captures a piece of social history in this every popular fictional account of an English rural upbringing between the wars. Flora Thompsons great memoir of her Oxfordshire girlhood.

Modern Classics Lark Rise To Candleford by Flora Thompson