Author: John MastersPublisher: Sphere
ISBN: 9780751501766
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
By the Green of the Spring
Author: John MastersPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448214793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
1918 dawns desolate over the fields of Flanders. Decimated by the worst war the world has ever seen, neither British nor German troops can break the deadlock of the trenches. After four years of murderous stalemate, peace seems buried for ever. But finally, one by one, the guns fall silent... By the Green of the Spring relives the last terrible months of the Great War and the uneasy, exhausted peace which followed it. From the North-West Frontier to the war in France and the civil war in Ireland, John Masters follows the fortunes of four Kent families – the Cates, the Rownlands, the Strattons and the Gorses – through the cataclysm that ended the golden Edwardian dream for ever. By the Green of the Spring, first published in 1981, is the third, self-contained volume of the Loss of Eden trilogy, a magnificent conclusion to an enthralling epic of war and peace by a major contemporary novelist.
By the Green of the Spring
Author: John MastersPublisher: Sphere
ISBN: 9780751501766
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Green Spring Valley
Author: Dawn F. ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Spring Green
Author: Valrie M. SelkowePublisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
ISBN: 9780688040550
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Danny Duck needs something to take to a "green" contest at a spring party and surprises himself by what he actually takes.
The Green of the Spring
Author: Jane GurneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780553404074
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
By the Green of the Spring
Author: John MastersPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN: 9780070407831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
Guy Rowland, twenty-two-year-old wartime air ace, Florinda, marchioness of Jarrow, and Fred Stratton, auto mechanic turned officer, must learn to cope with changing destinies at the end of World War I
Spring Night
Author: Tarjei VesaasPublisher: Peter Owen Modern Classic
ISBN: 9780720611892
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A beautifully observed portrait of adolescent experience, this novel relates the events that overtake a girl and her young brother when they are left unaccompanied for the night on their parents' farm. They have to cope alone when a group of strangers call at the house after their car breaks down. The strangers are an ill-assorted family who inflict their personal problems and neurosis on the two young siblings. On a deeper level, this extraordinary novel from 1954 is an account and remembrance of how it really feels to be young. Self-growth, self-knowledge, and love are explored as the children experience the abrupt change from childish dreams and security to adult responsibility and happiness.
Green of Spring
Author: Jane GurneyThe Green of Spring
Author: Jane GurneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781904154204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
By the Green of the Spring
Author: Paddy RichardsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780995143784
Category : Blackball (N.Z.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Otto Bader, Pansy Williams and Clem Bright live in the small mining town of Blackball on the West Coast, shaped by stories and the dream of a better, more equal society to come. But the First World War erupts and Otto, being of German descent, is torn from his family and the love of his life, Pansy, to endure the war interned as an enemy alien on Somes Island in Wellington Harbour. His suffering with the other internees, the culture of brutality and abuse of power by those in charge, is both chilling and truthful, and all the more poignant by taking place within sight of the capital city. Both his present and his future appear to be stolen from him. Pansy, pregnant, marries good, kind Clem, who then betrays his socialist principles by enlisting. Love, loss and abandonment haunt both Otto and Pansy, with reverberations far into the future. Lena is their child. Spirited, clever and perceptive, she tells her own story of growing up in the close-knit Bright family and the changes that occur when Clem returns from the war damaged both physically and psychologically. Lena's journey to adulthood is beautifully portrayed as she observes the people who make up her family and develops into an educated and creative young woman. Blackball is where she belongs and it is the place she recalls when she paints her memories. By the Green of the Spring is the gripping story of lives changed forever by war, the hurts suffered, the losses borne, and the secrets kept, yet it is also the story of the capacity of the human spirit to endure, to hope and to love."--Publisher's description.