Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
by Ronald Blythe
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- very good
- Paperback
- first
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Trade paperback with color pictorial cover, moderate edgeware and minor age toning to page margins. Pages are clean and without creasing. 1960s England, Suffolk county and village life between the wars. The remnants of the feudal system; deference of the working class. An oral history classic
"...a brillliant and extraordinary book which raises disquieting second thoughts ....." NYT Book Review
Synopsis
This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. Providing insights into farming, education, welfare, class, religion and death, Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has, in many ways, disappeared.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bound2please Books B2plz (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 090823U
- Title
- Akenfield
- Author
- Ronald Blythe
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Pages
- 318
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- oral history, Britain, village life
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- Essays and Stories;