Flora Thompson

Lark Rise to Candleford

1 - Lark Rise (1939)
2 - Candleford Green (1941)
3 - Over to Candleford (1943)

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  Lark Rise
  

  • 1939
  • / General Fiction
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  Lark Rise to Candleford - 1
  

  An autobiography of "Laura" - as the author calls herself - which describes in detail her 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 festiv...

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  Candleford Green
  

  • 1941
  • / General Fiction
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  Lark Rise to Candleford - 2
  

  Flora Thompson's semi-autobiographical Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy is known and loved the world over for its gentle depiction of rural life in Oxfordshire in the late 19th century, a way of life that was soon to vanish forever as mechanisation to...

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  Over to Candleford
  

  • 1943
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  Lark Rise to Candleford - 3
  

  Here we see an older Laura still growing up in Lark Rise, but branching out into the wider world and visiting her urbanite cousins in the small country town of Candleford, and contrasting her country life with theirs....

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  Still Glides the Stream
  

  • Feb-2021
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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 f...

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  Heatherley
  

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  In her sequel to 'Lark Rise to Candleford' Flora Thompson tells us of her time 'beyond Candleford Green' in Hampshire at the turn of the 19th century. This edition includes a map of the area and historical notes on the people and places she encounter...

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