The Cherry Tree

These volumes comprise Bell's celebrated trilogy of novelized memoirs set in the West Suffolk countryside between the two World Wars. The lasting fascination of all three books lies in the contrast between the natural hopefulness of their young author and the economic hopelessness of the scene...

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Main Author: Bell, Adrian 1902-1980 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [Oxfordshire] Oxford University Press 1985
Series:Twentieth-century classics
Oxford paperbacks
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Summary:These volumes comprise Bell's celebrated trilogy of novelized memoirs set in the West Suffolk countryside between the two World Wars. The lasting fascination of all three books lies in the contrast between the natural hopefulness of their young author and the economic hopelessness of the scene to which he has committed his life. "A fine and delightful achievement."--The Times (London) Adrian Bell was a journalist on the Observer before becoming a farmer in East Anglia.
Item Description:First published: J. Lane, Bodley Head, 1932.# The 3rd vol. of the author's trilogy, the 1st of which is Corduroy; the 2nd, Silver Ley.
Physical Description:xii, 216 pages 20 cm
ISBN:0192818791
9780192818799