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- 题名/责任者:
- Lark rise to Candleford : a trilogy / Flora Thompson ; edited by Phillip Mallett ; illustrated with wood-engravings by Julie Neild.
- 出版发行项:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- ISBN:
- 9780198796695
- 载体形态项:
- xxxi, 522 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- 丛编说明:
- Oxford world's classics
- 个人责任者:
- Thompson, Flora, author.
- 附加个人名称:
- Mallett, Phillip, editor.
- 附加个人名称:
- Neild, Julie, illustrator.
- 地理名称主题:
- Oxfordshire (England)-Social life and customs-Fiction.
- 中图法分类号:
- I561.45
- 摘要附注:
- "Lark Rise to Candleford is Flora Thompson's classic evocation of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture. 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. Through the eyes of Laura, the author's fictional counterpart, 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. Later, when Laura leaves school and becomes assistant to the village postmistress, the same loving detail brings vividly to life the rural post office and its staff. 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"--
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