Results for: books tagged ‘Countryside’
Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man: Siegfried Sassoon
George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare. The world he grows up in, ... More
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Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay: George Ewart Evans
A classic picture of the rural past in a remote Suffolk village, revealed in the conversations of old people who recall harvest customs, home crafts, poetic usages in dialect, old ... More
Strength of the Hills: George Ewart Evans
Dancing at Lughnasa: Brian Friel
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging ... More
Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man: Siegfried Sassoon
George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare. The world he grows up in, ... More
The Harvest: Christopher Hart
A novel about adolescence and first love, about English nature and the profound changes affecting our rural landscape, The Harvest is a contemporary and unsentimental elegy for an entire class ... More
The Leaping Hare: George Ewart Evans
A reissue of a rare and remarkable book about every aspect of the life and legend of the wild hare - in nature, poetry, folklore, history and art. Much of ... More
Door into the Dark: Seamus Heaney
Originally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). With the sensuosness and physicality ... More
Selected Poetry of John Clare: John Clare
This is the first selection of the great Romantic 'peasant poet' John Clare to make available the full range of his accomplishment - as the chronicler of nature and childhood, ... More
The Home Place: Brian Friel
The year is 1878. The widowed Christopher Gore, his son David and their housekeeper Margaret, the woman with whom they are both in love, live in The Lodge in Ballybeg. ... More
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