Flora Thompson
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English
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Lark Rise to Candleford is Flora Thompson's classic evocation of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture. The trilogy of Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green tells the story of Thompson's childhood and youth during the 1880s in Lark Rise--in reality Juniper Hill, the hamlet in Oxfordshire where she was born. --publisher.
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English
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Still Glides the Stream is considered a minor classic and a fictionalised, if autobiographical, social history of rural English life in the late 19th and early 20th century. It was written by Flora Jane Thompson, an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.
3) Heatherley
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Español
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Una cálida tarde de las postrimerías del siglo pasado, una muchacha de unos veinte años atravesaba los límites de Hampshire desde uno de sus condados limítrofes. Llevaba un vestido de lana de color marrón y un gorro de piel de castor adornado con dos pequeñas plumas de avestruz colocadas a ambos lados de su cabeza como signos de interrogación. Esa muchacha es Flora Thompson, alias Laura, y el pueblo en cuestión, Grayshott, donde Flora se...
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Español
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La Trilogía de Candleford, compuesta por los volúmenes Lark Rise, Vuelta a Candleford y Candleford Green, es un clásico de la vida rural británica a finales del siglo XIX inspirado en la infancia y juventud de la propia autora.
Cuenta la historia de tres comunidades de Oxfordshire estrechamente relacionadas: la aldea de Juniper Hill (Lark Rise), donde Flora creció; Buckingham (Candleford), una de las ciudades más cercanas, y el pueblo vecino...
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English
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An autobiography of "Laura" - as the author calls herself - which describes in detail her delightful life in a country village. Her self-sufficient world of farm labourers and craftsmen working to the rhythms of the seasons and enjoying their traditional festivities is preserved for readers in this interesting and entertaining narrative.
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Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The story of three closely-related Oxfordshire communities--a hamlet, a village, and a town--and the memorable cast of characters who people them. Based on Thompson's own experiences as a child and young woman, it is keenly observed and beautifully narrated, quiet and evocative.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A journalist named Daniel arrives to deliver the news that Emma has been left some money. There's a substantial sum to be claimed if Emma can prove her right to the money and there's a rags to riches story in it for Daniel's newspaper. As Robert and Emma contemplate their change in fortunes, Laura, who is fascinated to meet a real writer, shows Daniel around Lark Rise.
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BBC Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Newcomer Gabriel Cochrane arrive in Candleford with a vendetta against the evil banker Steerforth, who he feels has tricked him into losing his business. Elsewhere, Dorcas makes an ill-judged intervention, Minnie becomes worried that Alfie might fall out of love with her, and Emma is left in a precarious financial position.
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British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Sees the arrival of a dashing and elegant stranger in Candleford. Rich, enterprising, worldly and without a wife, James Dowland is a successful businessman with a string of London hotels and has come to transform Candleford and bring it new prosperity. But not everyone welcomes his entrepreneurial efforts and it isn't long before he is sparring with the spirited yet suddenly flustered Dorcas.
