Lark Rise

This book was wonderful. It is difficult, however, to classify this book or describe exactly how or why it was wonderful. What is this book? History? Sociology? Journal? It is many things, and nothing. It contains rich, lush descriptions of various aspects of life in a country hamlet in the 1880s: i......more

I, like many others, didn't discover this delightful author until I saw the PBS series 'Lark Rise to Candleford'. I loved that series and how it focused on telling the simple stories of simple people in a small market town and hamlet during the late 19th century in Oxfordshire, England. Reading Lark......more

Lo scandire della vita rurale sembra distillato in semplici idilliache immagini, i campi lavorati sotto i raggi caldi della giornata, un cottage alla sera, un uccello in volo all'ultima luce del giorno. Il romanzo di Flora Thompson ci trasporta nella vita nell'Oxfordshire rurale negli ultimi decenni......more