- Paperback: 688 pages
- Publisher: Coronet; New Ed edition (3 Aug 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340043601
- ISBN-13: 978-0340043608
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.4 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 244,699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Mr Delderfield's manner is easy, modest, heartwarming' (Evening Standard )
'R F Delderfield is a born storyteller' ( Sunday Mirror )
'It is always a pleasure to read R F Delderfield, because he never seems to be ashamed of writing well' (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 )
'Sheer, wonderful storytelling' (Chicago Tribune ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
'R F Delderfield is a born storyteller' ( Sunday Mirror )
'It is always a pleasure to read R F Delderfield, because he never seems to be ashamed of writing well' (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 )
'Sheer, wonderful storytelling' (Chicago Tribune ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Sunday Mirror
'R F Delderfield is a born storyteller'
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A huge saga (in three parts) of the life and times of a Victorian Squire, who purchases a run down estate in a valley on the Devon coast, just after the Boer War, relating the history of Britain through the two devastating World Wars up to the middle of the 1960's.
Seen through the eyes of the Squire, his wife and large family and the various locals - farmers, poachers, vicars and assorted country folk - the saga is a potted history of the changes to Britain through the 20th century.
I found this book on the bookshelf of my late Grandmother, who was born in 1900 - and having now finished the book, I can see why she owned it - it is the history of her lifetime (she died in the 1980's) - and would have been very nostalgic for her.
Huge changes over that period - from an essentially feudal start, with forelock-tugging locals, and a hunting Parson, to the aftermath of the Second World War, when the "spivs" and developers took over the council planning departments and laid waste to huge tracts of England in their pursuit of profit.
At times heartbreaking - many sad deaths of various members of the family - and at times a bucolic reverie of "Olde England", with its timeless fields, summer cloudy skies, and the slow pace of country life and the roll of the seasons, this is a delightful book (I have now finished the trilogy), and takes me (in part) back to my own childhood in the 1950s countryside.
I suspect many of the views of the Squire, are those of the author, lamenting the change for the worse of successive venal Governments - and looking back from the 21st century, I fear things have only continued on their downward slide, with the current state of Politicians with their noses firmly in the trough.
Seen through the eyes of the Squire, his wife and large family and the various locals - farmers, poachers, vicars and assorted country folk - the saga is a potted history of the changes to Britain through the 20th century.
I found this book on the bookshelf of my late Grandmother, who was born in 1900 - and having now finished the book, I can see why she owned it - it is the history of her lifetime (she died in the 1980's) - and would have been very nostalgic for her.
Huge changes over that period - from an essentially feudal start, with forelock-tugging locals, and a hunting Parson, to the aftermath of the Second World War, when the "spivs" and developers took over the council planning departments and laid waste to huge tracts of England in their pursuit of profit.
At times heartbreaking - many sad deaths of various members of the family - and at times a bucolic reverie of "Olde England", with its timeless fields, summer cloudy skies, and the slow pace of country life and the roll of the seasons, this is a delightful book (I have now finished the trilogy), and takes me (in part) back to my own childhood in the 1950s countryside.
I suspect many of the views of the Squire, are those of the author, lamenting the change for the worse of successive venal Governments - and looking back from the 21st century, I fear things have only continued on their downward slide, with the current state of Politicians with their noses firmly in the trough.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
R.F.Delderfield knew how to weave a proper, family saga. I first heard of him and his 'A Horseman Riding By' in the 1960s, when it was broadcast on 'Saturday Night Theatre' on the BBC Light Programme. I bought my copy of the book then. (The first two volumes were originally in one.) I also bought the sequel, 'The Green Gauntlet'. I watched the television Series too, but prefer the books, which I have read over and over. I still have them, in good condition. (They made books properly and of superior paper then.) So I am now going to buy paperbacks, to preserve my hardbacks.
If you are at all interested in the march of the UK's story since 1900, then you must read these books.
Also worth reading are the 'Avenue Stories' by Delderfield. Well... anything by him really. If you like a 'good, long read', you won't be disappointed.
JW
If you are at all interested in the march of the UK's story since 1900, then you must read these books.
Also worth reading are the 'Avenue Stories' by Delderfield. Well... anything by him really. If you like a 'good, long read', you won't be disappointed.
JW
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This trilogy was my introduction to Delderfield after being recommended to him on holiday and having read blood and gore murder stories. I found him to be a remarkable writer. I actually found the stories relaxing if that makes sense and looked forward to the next book. I will definitely read more of his books.
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