{"product_id":"2026100009813-secondhand-rape-of-the-fair-country","title":"Rape Of The Fair Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 5th ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: price clipped dj. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the roaring furnaces and coal-blackened valleys of nineteenth-century Wales, Rape of the Fair Country is a gripping saga of survival, injustice, and the indomitable human spirit. The novel chronicles the Mortymer family — fiery, passionate, and deeply rooted in the Welsh landscape — as they face the brutal realities of the Industrial Revolution, where ironmasters and coal barons crush the working poor beneath the weight of progress. Through the eyes of young Iestyn Mortymer, Alexander Cordell presents a vivid and harrowing portrait of a community fighting to preserve its dignity, its culture, and its very lives against the machinery of exploitation.\n\nCordell writes with a fierce, lyrical intensity that captures both the breathtaking beauty of the Welsh countryside and the hellish conditions of its iron foundries, drawing readers into a world where love, loyalty, and rebellion are inseparable. First published in 1959 and an immediate sensation — hailed by the *Sunday Times* as the best-written best-seller of its year — the novel stands as a landmark of Welsh historical fiction, inviting comparisons to the social realism of Zola and the passionate nationalism of Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley. The story does not end with survival alone; it ignites a question that lingers long after the final page — at what cost does a people reclaim its soul?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203283886299,"sku":"2026100009813-SECONDHAND","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ab44cd45-b2e5-4155-848a-17d775f718fa.png?v=1788147529","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009813-secondhand-rape-of-the-fair-country","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}