Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion

Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion

Author: Thomas Lloyd

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 760

ISBN-13: 9780300101799

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This sixth volume of the Buildings of Wales series covers two counties, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (formerly Cardiganshire) in the south-west of Wales. Like the same authors' Pembrokeshire, the volume covers an architecture still little known, hut encompassing a sweep from prehistoric chambered tombs to the high technology of the world's largest single-span glasshouse. The Buildings of Wales, founded by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83), will, when complete, document and describe the architecture of the Principality in seven regional volumes, complementing the sister series on England, Ireland and Scotland. In each one a gazetteer details all buildings of significance from megalithic tombs and Iron Age hill-forts, via grand seventeenth-century houses to Victorian domestic extravaganzas, great industrial centres and monumental public buildings. The countryside is explored to reveal churches, chapels, farmhouses, and traces of early industry. The gazetteer is complemented by an introduction which explains the broader context and builds a complete picture of the country's architectural identity. Each work is illustrated by numerous maps, plans and photographs, completed by glossaries and indexes, and gives a comprehensive and illuminating survey of the buildings of Wales.


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Author: Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club

Publisher:

Published: 1906

Total Pages: 870

ISBN-13:

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Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood

Author: Dylan Thomas

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2014-05-22

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1780228937

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We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood. 'Dazzling' New York Times 'A tour de force' Guardian 'Blazing' New Yorker Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas's best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. It tells the story of a seaside village during one spring day, populated by a cast of curious characters who we meet while still asleep, having wild dreams. Then as dusk and darkness fall at the end of the day, we say 'Goodnight', tucking them back into bed, to sleep once more. Lyrical, funny and moving, Under Milk Wood creates a rich modern pastoral, a tapestry of dreams and reality which has captured the imaginations of generations of readers. A Welsh epic, a work of poetic genius, a modern classic.


Secret Sins

Secret Sins

Author: David Russell Davies

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2012-11-15

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1783165456

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Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, ‘Secret Sins’. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and other assorted acts of depravity. This almost anecdotal historical study is often funny, sometimes disturbing, always revealing.