The Power of the Dead - Softcover

Williamson, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571277985 ISBN 13: 9780571277988

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2011

Synopsis

Volume eleven of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Twelve hundred acres of downland valley with a trout stream await an heir and Sir Hilary Maddison wants his only nephew Phillip to learn farming the hard way, beginning as a labourer and rising to a tenancy-for-life. But Phillip has other ideas. Unable to forget the early death of his wife Barley as well as his friends who died in the Great War, he needs to recreate his past in his writing. Trying to combine both worlds Phillip is bound to fail in one of them; and literary success only intensifies the dilemma. 'The finest yet in Mr Williamson's long series' Kenneth Allsop

About this title

About the Author:

Henry Williamson was born in December 1895 and died in August 1977. The last great visionary of his generation, he was both loved and misunderstood and his writing by turns famous and neglected. His huge literary output fell into several groups. Apart from his well-loved animal narratives he wrote direct accounts of his own life in rural Norfolk and Devon, numerous short stories and two semi-autobiographical groups of novels - The Flax Dream and A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, of which the last volume, The Gale of the World appeared in 1969. His last book, The Scandaroon, the tale of a pigeon, was published in 1972.

Review:

". . .a feat of recollection that has something in it which is akin to genius. . . of permanent literary and historical value." -- Goronwy Rees, The Listener

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0571277985
• ISBN 13: 9780571277988
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366