The Beautiful Years

Henry Williamson
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571259687
Date Published
18.02.2010
Delivery
All orders are sent via Royal Mail and are tracked: choose from standard or premium delivery.
Summary

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 tetralogy The Flax of Dream. All four volumes – The Beautiful Years, Dandelion Days, The Dream of Fair Women and The Pathway – are being reissued in Faber Finds, and together they make up the life story of Willie Maddison.

The Flax of Dream is one of the major literary achievements of the twentieth century.

HenryWilliamson

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…

Read More
HenryWilliamson
More books by Henry Williamson
Solitary-War.jpg

Volume thirteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. In September 1939, war with Germany casts its long shadow over the town…

A Solitary War
Henry Williamson
£15.00
Lucifer-Before-Sunrise.jpg

Volume fourteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Beginning in the winter of 1940/1 and ending with the uneasy ‘sunrise’ of…

Lucifer Before Sunrise
Henry Williamson
£16.00
Gale-of-the-World.jpg

The final volume, volume fifteen, of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Phillip Maddison is living apart from his wife, Lucy, in…

The Gale of the World
Henry Williamson
£14.00
Power-of-the-Dead.jpg

Volume eleven of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Twelve hundred acres of downland valley with a trout stream await an heir…

The Power of the Dead
Henry Williamson
£14.00
Phoenix-Generation.jpg

Volume twelve of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. In this novel of the troubled and decadent years before the Second World…

The Phoenix Generation
Henry Williamson
£14.00
It-Was-the-Nightingale-1.jpg

It Was the Nightingale (1962) was the tenth volume of Williamson’s great roman-fleuve, A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. After only a…

It Was the Nightingale
Henry Williamson
£14.00
Innocent-Moon-1.jpg

The Innocent Moon (1961) was the ninth volume in Henry Williamson’s great roman-fleuve, A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. It is the…

The Innocent Moon
Henry Williamson
£15.00
Test-to-Destruction-1.jpg

A Test to Destruction (1960) was the eighth entry in Henry Williamson’s fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years…

A Test to Destruction
Henry Williamson
£15.00
Love-and-the-Loveless-1.jpg

Love and the Loveless (1958) was the seventh entry in Henry Williamson’s fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years…

Love and the Loveless
Henry Williamson
£14.00
Golden-Virgin-1.jpg

The Golden Virgin (1957) was the sixth entry in Henry Williamson’s fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from…

The Golden Virgin
Henry Williamson
£16.00
Fox-Under-My-Cloak-1.jpg

A Fox under My Cloak (1954) was the fifth entry in Henry Williamson’s fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the…

A Fox Under My Cloak
Henry Williamson
£15.00
How-Dear-Is-Life-1.jpg

How Dear is Life (1954) was the fourth entry in Henry Williamson’s fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years…

How Dear Is Life
Henry Williamson
£14.00
Young-Phillip-Maddison-1.jpg

Young Phillip Maddison (1953) was the third entry in Henry Williamson’s fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from…

Young Phillip Maddison
Henry Williamson
£15.00
Donkey-Boy-1.jpg

Donkey Boy (1952) was the second entry in Henry Williamson’s fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the…

Donkey Boy
Henry Williamson
£15.00
Pathway.jpg

The Pathway is the fourth and concluding volume in Henry Williamson’s Flax of Dream sequence.Willie Maddison fought in the First World…

The Pathway
Henry Williamson
£15.00
Dark-Lantern-1.jpg

The Dark Lantern (1951) was the first of Henry Williamson’s fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the…

The Dark Lantern
Henry Williamson
£15.00
Dream-of-Fair-Women.jpg

This is the third novel in Henry Williamson’s Flax of Dream sequence. Willie Maddison has returned from the Great War and…

The Dream of Fair Women
Henry Williamson
£15.00
Dandelion-Days.jpg

Dandelion Days is the second novel in The Flax of Dream tetralogy describing the life of Willie Maddison. This volume continues…

Dandelion Days
Henry Williamson
£14.00
Wet-Flanders-Plain-1.jpg

The Wet Flanders Plain was first published in 1929 – also the year of, inter alia, Remarque’s All Quiet on the…

The Wet Flanders Plain
Henry Williamson
£12.00
Also Recommended

Browse a selection of books we think you might also like, with genre matches and a few wildcards thrown in.

Sportsmans-Sketches-Volume-2.jpg

A Sportsman’s Sketches was a collection of short stories written by Ivan Turgenev in 1852. As Turgenev’s first major piece of…

Sportsman’s Sketches: Volume 2
Ivan Turgenev
£12.00
Men-Like-Gods-1.jpg

The main protagonist of Men Like Gods is Mr Barnstaple, a careful driver and depressive journalist writing for The Liberal newspaper.…

Men Like Gods
H. G. Wells
£14.00
Our-Time-is-Gone.jpg

Our Time is Gone is the third book in the five novel Furys sequence. All five novels have been reissued in…

Our Time is Gone
James Hanley
£20.00