Author: James BrycePublisher:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Story of a Ploughboy
Author: James BrycePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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The Story of the Sea
Author: Arthur Quiller-CouchPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
The Plough Boy
Author: Tony ParkerPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571304397
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
'Those of you who have read Tony Parker's book The Plough Boy will be familiar with the story of Michael Davies. He was one of six youths concerned in an affray in which a boy was killed. Five of them received short terms of imprisonment, but Davies was condemned to death... The door to the execution shed was the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes every morning. That boy spent 92 days in the condemned cell watching that door before he was reprieved. I hope we can agree that torture of that kind shall never again be inflicted in Britain.' Baron Stonham, in the Lords debate on the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Bill, 19 July 1965
The Sketch
Author: Nonsense Novels
Author: Stephen LeacockThe Bookman
Author: The Dewpond
Author: Charles MarriottElsie Lindtner
Author: Karin MichaëlisPublisher:
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Category : Danish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Author: Julia BishopPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141964324
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
One of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012 'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain For we've received orders for to sail for old England But we hope in a short while to see you again' One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. They have thrived when sung on a whim to a handful of friends in a pub; they have bewitched generations of English composers who have set them for everything from solo violin to full orchestra; they are sung in concerts, festivals, weddings, funerals and with nobody to hear but the singer. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning. Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, it is a worthy successor to Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L.Lloyd's original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. 'Her keen eye did glitter like the bright stars by night The robe she was wearing was costly and white Her bare neck was shaded with her long raven hair And they called her pretty Susan, the pride of Kildare' In association with EFDSS, the English Folk Dance and Song Society
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