Tales from a Village School (The Fairacre Series #1) - Hardcover
The 39th book by Miss Read (the real-life Dora Saint) is a delightful collection of 40 stories, first published 40 years ago in England, and based on her own lifelong involvement with country schools as a village schoolteacher in the Berkshires. 94 line drawings.
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About the Author:
Miss Read is the pseudonym of Mrs. Dora Saint, a former schoolteacher beloved for her novels of English rural life, especially those set in the fictional villages of Thrush Green and Fairacre. The first of these, Village School, was published in 1955, and Miss Read continued to write until her retirement in 1996. In the 1998, she was awarded an MBE, or Member of the Order of the British Empire, for her services to literature. She lives in Berkshire.
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- PublisherAmereon Limited
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0848816897
- ISBN 13 9780848816896
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages174
- IllustratorKate Dicker
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