Henry Williamson
Henry Williamson (1895-1977) was a prolific writer best known for Tarka the Otter which won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. He wrote much of else of quality including The Wet Flanders Plain, The Flax of Dream tetralogy and the fifteen volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight all of which are being reissued in Faber Finds. His politics were unfortunate, naively and misguidedly right-wing. In truth, he was a Romantic. The critic George Painter famously said of him, 'He stands at the end of the line of Blake, Shelley and Jefferies: he is last classic and the last romantic.'
Books by Henry Williamson
Lucifer Before Sunrise
Henry Williamson
Volume fourteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight.
Beginning in the winter of 1940-1 and ending with the uneasy 'sunrise' of peace in 1945, this volume sees Phillip Maddison striving ...
The Gale of the World
Henry Williamson
The final volume, volume fifteen, of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight .
Phillip Maddison is living apart from his wife, Lucy, in the year immediately following the Second World War. He ...
A Solitary War
Henry Williamson
Volume thirteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight .
In September 1939, war with Germany casts its long shadow over the town and countryside. Phillip Maddison, now farming in East Anglia ...
The Phoenix Generation
Henry Williamson
Volume twelve of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight . In this novel of the troubled and decadent years before the Second World War, Phillip Maddison sees the survivors of the Western ...
The Power of the Dead
Henry Williamson
Volume eleven of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight.
Twelve hundred acres of downland valley with a trout stream await an heir and Sir Hilary Maddison wants his only nephew Phillip ...
It Was the Nightingale
Henry Williamson
The tenth volume of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight . After only a year of married happiness, Phillip Maddison experiences tragedy when his young wife dies in childbirth. Left with a ...
The Innocent Moon
Henry Williamson
In volume 9 of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, it is the early 1920s and Phillip Maddison, out of the army, is determined to become a writer.
When his career ...
A Test to Destruction
Henry Williamson
The eighth volume of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight , A Test to Destruction begins during the final year of the Great War.
After the harsh winter of 1917, everyone is ...
Love and the Loveless
Henry Williamson
The year covered by this novel was perhaps the darkest of the Great War, with widespread mutinies in the French Army after the disasterous Nivelle offensive in Champagne in the ...
The Golden Virgin
Henry Williamson
The sixth volume of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight , The Golden Virgin , is set in the Great War during 1916, the year of the Somme. It shows Phillip Maddison surviving ...
A Fox Under My Cloak
Henry Williamson
The fifth volume of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight , A Fox under My Cloak is set in the Great War from the Christmas 1914 Truce, when German and British soldiers ...
How Dear Is Life
Henry Williamson
The fourth volume of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight , How Dear is Life follows the story of Phillip Maddison in the portentous months leading to the outbreak of the Great ...
Young Phillip Maddison
Henry Williamson
The third volume of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight , Young Phillip Maddison continues the story of Phillip Maddison as he grows towards manhood in the years immediately preceding the Great ...
Donkey Boy
Henry Williamson
The second volume of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight , Donkey Boy is the story of Richard Maddison's first-born Phillip, nicknamed 'donkey boy' because his life was saved as a ...
The Dark Lantern
Henry Williamson
Spanning the years from the late Victorian period up to the Second World War, The Dark Lantern (first published in 1951) is the first of Henry Williamson’s fifteen-volume A ...
The Pathway
Henry Williamson
The Pathway is the fourth and concluding volume in Henry Williamson's Flax of Dream sequence.
Willie Maddison fought in the First World War, and suffered fully its tragedies. Now ...
The Dream of Fair Women
Henry Williamson
This is the third novel in Henry Williamson's Flax of Dream sequence. Willie Maddison has returned from the Great War and chooses to live a recluse-like existence in a ...
Dandelion Days
Henry Williamson
Dandelion Days is the second novel in The Flax of Dream tetralogy describing the life of Willie Maddison. This volume continues the story of Willie's boyhood with escapades at ...
The Beautiful Years
Henry Williamson
The Beautiful Years is a tender evocation of West Country childhood in the golden years before the First World War. It is also the first volume in Henry Williamson's ...
The Wet Flanders Plain
Henry Williamson
The Wet Flanders Plain was first published in 1929. It was in good company for that year also saw the first publication of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on ...
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