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Donkey Boy (1952) was the second entry in Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. It tells of Richard Maddison's first-born Phillip, nicknamed 'donkey boy' because his life was saved in infancy by being fed with ass' milk. The boy grows up in the Edwardian era, something of a misfit, at odds with his father. "With extraordinary skill and precision [Williamson] rebuilds the scenery of the past ...[he] seems to be engaged in a thriller whose instalments can be relied on to animate a whole section of social history". (Spectator). "Williamson's style is romantic, though rarely sentimental, and his sensuous response to nature is fresh and surprising". (Anthony Burgess, Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939).
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Henry Williamson (1895-1977) was a prolific writer best known for Tarka the Otter which won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. He wrote much of else of quality including The Wet Flanders Plain, The Flax of Dream tetralogy and the fifteen volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight all of which are being reissued in Faber Finds. His politics were unfortunate, naively and misguidedly right-wing. In truth, he was a Romantic. The critic George Painter famously said of him, 'He stands at the end of the line of Blake, Shelley and Jefferies: he is last classic and the last romantic.'
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- PublisherArrow (A Division of Random House Group)
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 009936820X
- ISBN 13 9780099368205
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