Author: Mary (Cousin.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Country Life, and Other Stories
Author: Mary (Cousin.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Lottery of Life [and Other Stories]
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Author: Marguerite Countess of BlessingtonPublisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Time of Her Life, and Other Stories
Author: Maude RobinsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385377161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Lights and Shadows of Domestic Life, and Other Stories
Author: Country Life
Author: Giles WoodPublisher: Ebury Spotlight
ISBN: 9781529900163
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Nutty Idyll Former townies Giles and Mary swapped city life for rural Wiltshire over thirty years ago, and they've each embraced it in their own very different ways. Mary has happily traded sophisticated London salons for monthly lectures at the Farmers' Club, competitive school quizzes, church interactions and local Auction House sales. While Giles has immersed himself in the catastrophic consequences of conventional farming, his organic no-dig veg-patch, the increasingly disproportionate response by local landlords to harmless trespassers and the strange death of the village house martins. For recent city escapees and indigenous country folk alike, Giles and Mary sift through the unhelpful dreamy myths and offer a practical reality, with robust back and forth on every aspect of life in rural outposts, including but not limited to planning wars, class wars, dog thefts, tree-felling fights, misunderstandings between incomers and natives and the role of the Heron Appreciation Society. The much-loved Wiltshire couple share their combined, hard-earned lessons, so we can learn the secret skills of grumbling and bumbling our way towards a new contented country life.
Country Life
Author: A Month by the Lake & Other Stories
Author: Herbert Ernest BatesPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811210362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"If we set H. E. Bates's best tales against the best of Chekhov's," Graham Greene declared, "I do not believe it would be possible, with any conviction, to argue that the Russian was the finer artist." The sampler of H. E. Bates stories presented here shows the merit of that praise and displays the range and aspects of Bates's work from his first published story, "The Flame," to one of his very last, "The Song of the Wren." In his long and prolific literary career, Bates (1905-1974) produced twenty-five novels, a three-volume autobiography, nine books of essays, several plays and children's books, as well as his important and perhaps most enduring achievement, twenty-three collections of short stories. A Month by the Lake & Other Stories displays Bates's extraordinary talent for concisely getting at the heart of the matter. Whether he is dealing with romance in middle age (the title story), or the almost painful clarity of a child's world ("The Cowslip Field"), or encapsulating the disintegration and tragedy of a man and a house and the era and class they represent ("The Flag")-Bates's compassion for humanity remains constant. As Anthony Burgess remarks in his introduction, Bates "achieved such sovereignty of what literary land he inherited that he deserves the homage of our uncomplicated enjoyment... Bates's affection for ordinary people is one of his shining virtues. But he himself, as I knew, and as this compilation should make clear, was, is, far from ordinary." Book jacket.
The Withered Arm and Other Stories
Author: Thomas HardyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101221682
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The Withered Arm', the title story in this selection of Hardy's finest short stories. Hardy's first story, 'Destiny and a Blue Cloak' was written fresh from the success of Far From the Madding Crowd. Beautiful in their own right, these stories are also testing-grounds for the novels in their controversial sexual politics, their refusal of romance structures, and their elegiac pursuit of past, lost loves. Several of the stories in The Withered Arm were collected to form the famous volume, Wessex Tales (1888), the first time Hardy denoted 'Wessex' to describe his fictional world. The Withered Arm is the first of a new two-volume selection of Hardy's short stories, edited with an introduction and notes by Kristin Brady.
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