Lark Rise, Candleford

Literature & Fiction

Flora Thompson

Dramas & Plays

Hutchinson

Miss Charity Finch returns to her village following an absence of 24 years. It's now post-World War II but the sleepy little village has hardly changed at all since her childhood in the 1880s. Only the faces have changed. This is a sweet nostalgic book very similar to the author's fictional memoir "Lark Rise to Candleford" but the story is tighter.

The illustrated Still glides the stream

Contemporary

Bracken Books

Flora Thompson's Trilogy, "Lark Rise to Candleford," is one of the best-loved of all books about the English countryside. It was published forty years ago, and the past it describes is now a century away. Yet it remains perhaps the most vivid, detailed and immediate portrait of country life ever written.

The Illustrated Lark Rise To Candleford - A Trilogy

History

Europe

Century Publishing Co.

Lark Rise to Candleford (Puffin Classics)

Children's Books

Puffin Books

Modern Classics Lark Rise To Candleford

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Penguin Classic

Autobiographical accounts of country life in late nineteenth-century England, chronicle the disappearing traditions and values of hamlet, village, and small market towns

The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy by Flora Thompson

Abridged by Julian Shuckburgh

Crown Publishers, Inc.

In 'Still Glides the Stream,' Flora Thompson returns to the English countryside of her childhood. Published posthumously in 1948, it paints an unforgettable picture of the people and way of life of almost a century ago. Unlike her best-selling trilogy, the book is entirely fictional, centered on the imaginary Oxfordshire village of Restharrow around the time of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887. The village and its inhabitants are seen through the eyes of Miss Charity Finch, a retired school mistress, who returns to Restharrow to relive the memories of her early years. Her memories capture a world where life was hard but values were solid and enduring, but it is also a world that was vanishing...even as Charity Finch remembers her childhood. In 'Still Glides the Stream,' Flora Thompson employs her imagination and artistic skills to wholly new effect. With an unforgettable gallery of characters, Uncle Reuben, Bess, Mercy, Luke, Stella Pocock, and the rest, she creates a vivid and affectionate portrait of life in the English countryside as it was a century ago.

The Illustrated Still Glides The Stream

Crown Publishing

Flora Thompson's memoirs of a childhood spent in the Oxfordshire hamlet of Juniper in the 1880s.

The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy

Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing "Lark Rise, Over To Candleford" and "Candleford Green", is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town - is based on the author's experiences during childhood and youth. It chronicles May Day celebrations and forgotten children's games, the daily lives of farmworkers and craftsmen, friends and relations - all painted with a gaiety and freshness of observation that make this trilogy an evocative and sensitive memorial to Victorian rural England.

The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candelford

Ebury Press

Lark Rise

The last words are true of the hamlet of Lark Rise. Because they were still an organic community, subsisting on the food, however scanty and monotonous, they raised themselves, they enjoyed good health and so, in spite of grinding poverty, no money to spend on amusements and hardly any for necessities, happiness. They still sang out-of-doors and kept May Day and Harvest Home. The songs were travesties of the traditional ones, but their blurred echoes and the remnants of the old salty country speech had not yet died and left the fields to their modern silence. The songs came from their own lips, not out of a box.

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