Afore Night Come
Afore Night Come

Author: David Rudkin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2001-09-17

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1783193832

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Sure there's no end to the disasters that could choose to unfurl themselves on the world. The harvest is ripe in a Black Country pear orchard. Seasoned hands settle to familiar tasks and the ritual education of newcomers. But corrupted lands yields a bitter crop. The weather turns, friction mounts and pesticide begins to fall...

From Jest to Earnest
From Jest to Earnest

Author: Edward Payson Roe

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-19

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13:

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This is a Victorian-era American novel. It features a plot hatched by a very popular young belle who seems to have all men adore her, and who decides to ensnare a new visitor ( who happens to be a pastor) just for fun and to amuse her friends. Her plan, however, comes unstuck and does not go the way she thought it would.

Lark Rise
Lark Rise

Author: Harold John Massingham

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-10

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13:

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"Lark Rise" is a captivating semi-autobiographical fiction full of informative facts about Victorian life in a hamlet of Oxfordshire, England. It tells the story of ordinary men working on farms and women in their homes with children, washing, and cooking. The well-written factual details delivered by Flora Thompson make this work enjoyable.