- Mass Market Paperback: 500 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; First THUS edition (Jun 1975)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671788698
- ISBN-13: 978-0671788698
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.7 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,476,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for R F Delderfield:
'Mr Delderfield's manner is easy, modest, heartwarming' (Evening Standard )
'R F Delderfield is a born storyteller' ( Sunday Mirror )
'Sheer, wonderful storytelling' (Chicago Tribune )
'It is always a pleasure to read R F Delderfield, because he never seems to be ashamed of writing well . . . Today he is a bestseller wherever English language books are read' (Books and Bookmen )
'Highly recommended. Combines tension with a splendid sense of atmosphere and vivid characterisation. An excellent read' (Sunday Express )
'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett' (Life Magazine ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
'Mr Delderfield's manner is easy, modest, heartwarming' (Evening Standard )
'R F Delderfield is a born storyteller' ( Sunday Mirror )
'Sheer, wonderful storytelling' (Chicago Tribune )
'It is always a pleasure to read R F Delderfield, because he never seems to be ashamed of writing well . . . Today he is a bestseller wherever English language books are read' (Books and Bookmen )
'Highly recommended. Combines tension with a splendid sense of atmosphere and vivid characterisation. An excellent read' (Sunday Express )
'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett' (Life Magazine ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Sunday Mirror
'R F Delderfield is a born storyteller'
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
R F Delderfield is a superb storyteller. The entire A Horseman Riding By trilogy is superb. Yes, there are a few continuity errors, but with over 100 characters, is that not acceptable? I have read and re read this whole series and will go on doing so. (Currently re-reading Diana by the same author for the third time!) and find it to be as demanding of my attention and feelings as it did the first time. No one else seems to have the great sweeping imagination to write of a whole valley and everyone in it in such depth and detail, with such compassion and genuine feeling. God Is An Englishman is a superb set of books but doesn't come near this timeless piece of nostalgia. Would that we had storytellers like this today!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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the third part of the horseman books ,the weakest of the three,but if you read the first two its a given you will want to round off with the third,but the gauntlet is a bit of a let down,and lacks heart ,but as i said is a must if you read the other two sueb
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This review is from: Post of Honour (Horseman Riding By 2)
Read all three of these books many years ago and have just re-read them - they are absolutely magnificent!
The story of a lonely, wounded young man riding into an isolated valley at the beginning of the twentieth century where he is instantly at home, and, in fact makes it his home for the next 60 odd years.
This story is in three long volumes, but every word is worth the reading, with Delderfield's wonderful gift for story-telling, characterization and description, and yes, there is sex in it but done in such a way as to use no prurience but you are left in no doubt as to what he is referring! There are epic descriptions of farming, battlefields of World Wars 1 and 2 and above all, the people who inhabit this beautiful, hidden valley.
The utter span and conception of these works is, in fact, beyond desciption by me - you will have to read them for yourself and find out what I mean.
EXTREMELY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AS ARE ALL OF DELDERFIELD'S OTHER STORES.
Read all three of these books many years ago and have just re-read them - they are absolutely magnificent!
The story of a lonely, wounded young man riding into an isolated valley at the beginning of the twentieth century where he is instantly at home, and, in fact makes it his home for the next 60 odd years.
This story is in three long volumes, but every word is worth the reading, with Delderfield's wonderful gift for story-telling, characterization and description, and yes, there is sex in it but done in such a way as to use no prurience but you are left in no doubt as to what he is referring! There are epic descriptions of farming, battlefields of World Wars 1 and 2 and above all, the people who inhabit this beautiful, hidden valley.
The utter span and conception of these works is, in fact, beyond desciption by me - you will have to read them for yourself and find out what I mean.
EXTREMELY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AS ARE ALL OF DELDERFIELD'S OTHER STORES.
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