Library of Wales – serie
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39 produkter
Border Country
Häftad, 2005
151 kr
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Harry Price has worked for years as a railway signalman in the Welsh border village of Glynmawr. Now he has had a stroke, and his son, Matthew, a lecturer at Oxford, returns to the close-knit community that he left. As Harry lies in silent pain in his cramped bedroom, Matthew experiences the …
Library of Wales: Voices of the Children
Häftad, 2008
113 kr
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The Voices of the Children is a delicate and heart-felt story of the golden, ephemeral, uncertain world of childhood. Set in a rural mining village in South Wales in the years leading up to the Second World War, George Ewart Evans has recreated a magical but alive world that will resonate with our …
Library of Wales: The Caves of Alienation
Häftad, 2009
130 kr
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At the centre of Stuart Evans's ambitious and enthralling novel is Michael Caradock, a well-known writer whose life has ended violently on an isolated Welsh island. The circumstances of his death are mysterious, but then his whole life and work are subjects of controversy. Are his work and death …
Library of Wales: The Alone to the Alone
Av Gwyn Thomas, Dai Smith
Häftad, 2008
126 kr
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First published in 1947, The Alone to the Alone is Gwyn Thomas' most shaped work: the underlying meaning of South Wales' history is not so much documented as laid bare for universal dissection and dissemination. This volume is a comic vision of humanity that recognises no geographical boundaries.
Library of Wales: Black Parade
Av Jack Jones
Häftad, 2009
126 kr
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One of Merthyr’s Victorian brickyard girls, Saran watches the world parade past her doorstep on the banks of the stinking and rat-infested Morlais Brook: the fair-day revellers; the chapel-goers and the funeral processions. She never misses a trip to the town’s wooden theatres, despite her life …
Library of Wales: The Hill of Dreams
Häftad, 2010
142 kr
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Almost undoubtedly Machen's most important and moving work. Lucian Taylor, the hero, is damned either through contact with an erotically pagan 'other' world or through something degenerate in his own nature, which he thinks of as a 'faun' . He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he …
Library of Wales: Flame and Slag
Av Ron Berry
Häftad, 2012
124 kr
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In Ron Berry's masterpiece, and kaleidoscopic history of the South Wales valleys, lovers Rees Stevens and Ellen Vaughan must discover and interpret Ellen's father's journal.
Library of Wales: Goodbye, Twentieth Century
Av Dannie Abse
Inbunden, 2011
232 kr
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This is a limited hardback edition of Dannie Abse's classic memoir Goodbye Twentieth Century. Dannie Abse's rich mixture of Welsh and Jewish backgrounds, and his dual occupations of doctor and author, have led to what is widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant …
Library of Wales: We Live
Av Lewis Jones
Häftad, 2015
126 kr
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The second of Lewis Jones' two epic industrial novels of the 1930s.Len, son of Big Jim and dynamic political organiser, takes centre stage in Lewis Jones' sequel to Cwmardy. Along his journey, he is influenced by Mary, a teacher, and the Communist Party, which becomes central to his work both …
Library of Wales: Young Emma
Av W. H. Davies
Häftad, 2015
113 kr
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A moving and revealing memoir of real life at the turn of the century, Young Emma is W. H. Davies's frank and honest account of the relationship with the woman he encountered on a London street corner who was to become his wife.
Library of Wales: Old Soldier Sahib
Häftad, 2020
127 kr
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‘...a remarkable and fascinating account...’ --Phil Carradice, BBCFrom the author of the celebrated Great War memoir , Old Soldier Sahib is Frank Richards' account of his experiences as a private in the Royal Welch Fusiliers in India at the dawn of the 20th century.
Rhapsody and Other Stories
Häftad, 2019
130 kr
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These sharp, ironic and compelling stories are perfect hard gems of observation about the truths of everyday life: kindness and friendship balance precariously with obsession and desire.
Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve
Av Dannie Abse
Häftad, 2022
130 kr
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Widely acclaimed for warm humour, lyricism and honesty, as well as its accurate evocation of the thirties, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve has become a sung-after classic. In this delightful autobiographical novel, Dannie Abse skilfully interweaves public & private themes, setting the fortunes of a …
Dark Philosophers
Av Gwyn Thomas
Häftad, 2022
126 kr
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Sex, murder, and a devastating, humour mark these three novellas that Gwyn Thomas wrote in 1946. In Oscar, the narrator of death and exploitation fails to fend off the evil that envelops him. InSimeon, the abuse of sexual and family power ends with violent death, and in The Dark Philosophers …
Volunteers
Häftad, 2024
126 kr
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Foreword by Kim HowellsPower and politics corrupt... this is the future.A worker is killed in the striking coalfields of south Wales. Some months later a government minister suspected of being connected with the death is shot.Lewis Redfern, once a radical, now a political analyst and journalist, …
Cwmardy & We Live
Av Lewis Jones
Häftad, 2024
215 kr
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Written by miner, union organiser and activist Lewis Jones, Cwmardy is the story of Big Jim, collier and Boer war soldier and his wife Siân as they strive to wrest a decent life from dire conditions despite the exploitation of mine owners and the apathy of a distant and uncaring political class.In …
Summer Flood
Av Goronwy Rees
Häftad, 2025
130 kr
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Owen Morgan, an Oxford undergraduate, returns to his family home on the rural north coast of Wales for the summer. The world has changed for Morgan. He is a man coming to terms with himself. University has offered new experiences; desires he had suspected but never acted upon have become real. It …
Rape of the Fair Country
Häftad, 2025
256 kr
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Set in the valleys of the Welsh iron country, this turbulent, unforgettable novel begins the saga of the Mortymer family. A family of hard men and beautiful women, all forced into a bitter struggle with their harsh environment, as they slave and starve for the cruel English ironmasters.But …
Library of Wales: The Dark Philosophers
Av Gwyn Thomas
Häftad, 2005
122 kr
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The third title in the landmark series of classics, the Library of Wales. Three novellas distinguished by their astonishing portrayal of incest, murder, and devastating tragic humour. The stories include themes such as sexual and family power, death and exploitation. The final story 'The Dark …
Library of Wales: Home to an Empty House
Häftad, 2006
113 kr
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The seventh title in the landmark series of classics, the Library of Wales. A novel based in an urban and industrial setting that is being slowly detached from its cultural identity. This is a story about Walter and Connie, a married couple facing weaknesses, indecision and the harsh values of …
Library of Wales: A Man's Estate
Häftad, 2006
113 kr
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The sixth title in the landmark series of classics, the Library of Wales. A novel about Hannah Elis, a thirty-five year old woman who lives under the powerful hold of her stepfather on the family farm. She yearns for the return of her long-banished brother Philip, believing he will rescue her from …
Library of Wales: In the Green Tree
Av Alun Lewis
Häftad, 2006
113 kr
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The eighth title in the landmark series of classics, the Library of Wales. A collection of letters and six short stories which paint a vibrant picture of life in India as a British serviceman during the second World War. It is a rare literary example of a Welshman's experience of empire and war, …
Library of Wales: Rhapsody
Häftad, 2007
113 kr
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A collection of short stories from English and American magazines, by the Cardiff born author, first published in 1927. The pieces are distinctive in voice and sensibility.
Library of Wales: Withered Root, The
Av Rhys Davies
Häftad, 2007
113 kr
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A novel recounting the troubled life of Reuben Daniels, reared in a south Wales valley, in Nonconformist culture. He is a young man full of life and its desires but still unsure of its meaning. A man absorbed - driven to expound the gospel. But in the new world of salvation there is conflict …
Library of Wales: Jampot Smith
Häftad, 2008
113 kr
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This novel captures with such remarkable fidelity that no-man's- land of the emotions peopled by sixteen and seventeen-year-olds. In Jampot Smith Jeremy Brooks makes one of the best attempts to recapture the fastidiousness and privacy of the very young. With foreword by Merfyn Jones.
Library of Wales: Congratulate the Devil
Häftad, 2008
110 kr
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Foreword by adrian DannatA happiness drug is found to be intolerable to society. Howell Davies describes the process by which its disseminators are hounded to death.Starling knows a chemist called Roper, who knows a painter called Jourbert, who knows a man in Mexico who works for the government. …
Library of Wales: The Heyday in the Blood
Häftad, 2008
126 kr
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The village of Tanygraig on the Welsh-English border is the setting for this passionate novel of love and its consequences. Beti, the beautiful and wilful daughter of a pub landlord, is pursued by two men: Llew, her aggressive, red-haired cousin, and Evan, the dreamy miller and would-be poet. She …
Library of Wales: The Valley, The City, The Village
Av Glyn Jones
Häftad, 2009
113 kr
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An artist at heart, Trystan Morgan grows up in his grandmother’s valley mining cottage, duty-bound by her deep wish for him to be a preacher. He comes from farming stock and longs to paint the Welsh countryside of his people. But he agrees to study at the city university although his adolescent …
Library of Wales: Dai Country
Häftad, 2009
113 kr
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At the heart of Dai Country - the central valleys of twentieth-century South Wales from the 1930s to the 1970s - was the metropolis of Pontypridd, and it is from this vantage point in time and space that Alun Richards cast his baleful eye on the personal relationships and social ambitions of the …
Library of Wales: The Great God Pan
Häftad, 2019
126 kr
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The Great God Pan caused a furore in London as the pagan demoness who is its central figure seemed to link the sense of horror with a prurient sexuality. The story concerns the doings of evil scientists and women who become monsters at their hands, and they shed an interesting light on current …
