Akenfield

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Akenfield
Author : Ronald Blythe
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Publisher : Allen Lane
Language : English
Release Date : 29 March 1969
ISBN : UOM:39015049816674
Pages : 296 pages
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All of the facts about the economy, population, and social life of Akenfield are drawn from a village in East Suffolk ; only the names of the village and the villagers have been changed.

Akenfield

All of the facts about the economy, population, and social life of Akenfield are drawn from a village in East Suffolk ; only the names of the village and the villagers have been changed.

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Voices of Akenfield

Born and brought up in rural Suffolk, Ronald Blythe was fascinated by the rhythms of country life and the stories of the people he had known since childhood. In this perceptive and moving evocation of his home, the villagers speak candidly about their lives, from the reminiscences of survivors of

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Return To Akenfield

Ronald Blythe's 1969 book Akenfield - a moving portrait of English country life told in the voices of the farmers and villagers themselves - is a modern classic. In 2004, writer and reporter Craig Taylor returned to the village in Suffolk on which Akenfield was based. Over the course of several months,

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The Time by the Sea

The Time by the Sea is about Ronald Blythe's life in Aldeburgh during the 1950s. He had originally come to the Suffolk coast as an aspiring young writer, but found himself drawn into Benjamin Britten's circle and began working for the Aldeburgh Festival. Although befriended by Imogen Holst and by

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New Yorkers

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One Million Tiny Plays about Britain

A Wonder Woman and bride-to-be finds herself worse for wear at the end of a hen night; a funeral director's love of Manchester United proves unhelpful when talking to the bereaved; two overly-vigilant mothers wrestle with their paranoia in the queue for Santa's Grotto; a widow recounts her disastrous return

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'The View in Winter' is a timeless and moving study of the perplexities of living to a great age, as related by a wide range of men and women: miners, villagers, doctors, teachers, craftsmen, soldiers, priests, the widowed and long-retired. Their voices are set in the context of what literature,

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A Year in the Woods

Colin Elford's A Year in the Woods is an enthralling journey into the heart of the English countryside - with a preamble by Craig Taylor. Colin Elford spends his days alone - alone but for the deer, the squirrels, the rabbits, the birds, and the many other creatures inhabiting the

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