The Golden Sovereign: A Conclusion To Over The Bridge
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few memoirs capture the delicate threshold between boyhood and manhood with the quiet brilliance of The Golden Sovereign, the concluding volume of Richard Church's celebrated autobiography. Picking up where Over the Bridge left off, this final chapter chronicles Church's emergence from a modest South London upbringing into the wider, more turbulent world of early twentieth-century England — a young man of keen literary sensibility navigating the competing demands of civil service duty, poetic ambition, and personal grief. Church writes with a prose style that is at once luminous and restrained, drawing the reader into an intimate portrait of artistic self-discovery set against the backdrop of Edwardian and early Georgian England. His autobiography stands as a significant contribution to the tradition of English literary memoir, comparable in its introspective depth to the works of Edmund Gosse and J.R. Ackerley. The Golden Sovereign leaves the reader with a profound sense of a life quietly but irrevocably transformed — and with the lingering question of what it truly costs a sensitive soul to choose art over convention.
Author: Richard Church
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Heinemann
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few memoirs capture the delicate threshold between boyhood and manhood with the quiet brilliance of The Golden Sovereign, the concluding volume of Richard Church's celebrated autobiography. Picking up where Over the Bridge left off, this final chapter chronicles Church's emergence from a modest South London upbringing into the wider, more turbulent world of early twentieth-century England — a young man of keen literary sensibility navigating the competing demands of civil service duty, poetic ambition, and personal grief. Church writes with a prose style that is at once luminous and restrained, drawing the reader into an intimate portrait of artistic self-discovery set against the backdrop of Edwardian and early Georgian England. His autobiography stands as a significant contribution to the tradition of English literary memoir, comparable in its introspective depth to the works of Edmund Gosse and J.R. Ackerley. The Golden Sovereign leaves the reader with a profound sense of a life quietly but irrevocably transformed — and with the lingering question of what it truly costs a sensitive soul to choose art over convention.