Author: RICHARD HILLYER
Title: Country Boy. No. 22
Description: Slightly Foxed Ltd. 2013. Linnen band. Pp: 255. Richard Hillyer was the pseudonym used by Charles Stranks, a farmworker`s son who grew up in great poverty in a remote Buckinghamshire village in the years before the First World War. Country Boy describes how, against all the odds, he managed to educate himself and get to university. nHardwick (which Richard Hillyer calls Byfield) was a village virtually unchanged since Saxon times, where life moved to the rhythm of the seasons. The squire ruled the roost, and for families like the Hillyers, tied to the land and to the farmers who had owned it for many generations, there was no way out of poverty, no room for self-advancement. Boys like Richard left the village school at an early age and became labourers like their fathers.nYet the snatches of literature he picked up in the classroom set this young boy`s imagination on fire. With battered volumes of Scott`s novels he had found thrown out for burning and books he managed to buy for a few pennies at a rundown market stall, he built up a small library. Among them were some textbooks, from which he taught himself Latin. When the Rector discovered this by chance, he could hardly believe it. It was he who helped Richard make his escape. ISBN: 9781906562519. Cond./Kwaliteit: Als nieuw.
Keywords: 9781906562519
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Title: Country Boy. No. 22
Description: Slightly Foxed Ltd. 2013. Linnen band. Pp: 255. Richard Hillyer was the pseudonym used by Charles Stranks, a farmworker`s son who grew up in great poverty in a remote Buckinghamshire village in the years before the First World War. Country Boy describes how, against all the odds, he managed to educate himself and get to university. nHardwick (which Richard Hillyer calls Byfield) was a village virtually unchanged since Saxon times, where life moved to the rhythm of the seasons. The squire ruled the roost, and for families like the Hillyers, tied to the land and to the farmers who had owned it for many generations, there was no way out of poverty, no room for self-advancement. Boys like Richard left the village school at an early age and became labourers like their fathers.nYet the snatches of literature he picked up in the classroom set this young boy`s imagination on fire. With battered volumes of Scott`s novels he had found thrown out for burning and books he managed to buy for a few pennies at a rundown market stall, he built up a small library. Among them were some textbooks, from which he taught himself Latin. When the Rector discovered this by chance, he could hardly believe it. It was he who helped Richard make his escape. ISBN: 9781906562519. Cond./Kwaliteit: Als nieuw.
Keywords: 9781906562519
Price: EUR 35.00 = appr. US$ 38.04 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2189831
- Book number: 2189831
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