Flora Thompson
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Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Language
Español
Description
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...
5) Heatherley
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Series
Language
Español
Description
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...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Newcomer Gabriel Cochrane arrives 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
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Follows the relationship of two contrasting communities: Lark Rise, a small hamlet gently holding onto the past, and Candleford, a neighboring market town bustling into the future. When young Laura Timmins leaves Lark Rise for a job at the Candleford post office, she discovers an eye-opening, exciting new world. In the face of scandals and feuds, she must leave her childhood behind
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
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