The Vanished World: An Autobiography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In The Vanished World, one of England's most beloved storytellers turns the lens upon himself, conjuring with extraordinary vividness the vanished landscapes, communities, and rhythms of English rural and working-class life in the early twentieth century. H.E. Bates chronicles his childhood and formative years in Northamptonshire, painting an intimate and luminous portrait of a world shaped by horse-drawn carts, boot-and-shoe factories, and the slow turning of seasons — a world that would be irrevocably swept away by the tides of modernity and war. With the same lyrical precision that defines his finest fiction, Bates presents his early encounters with literature and nature as the twin forces that would forge his remarkable literary identity. This autobiography stands as a testament to the power of place and memory in the making of a writer, suffused with the warmth, wit, and sensory richness that made Bates one of the great chroniclers of English country life. His prose, always elegant and deceptively understated, illuminates not merely a personal past but a collective one — a window into an England that has all but ceased to exist. For readers who have long admired the author of The Darling Buds of May, this memoir raises an irresistible question: how does a world disappear, and what remains of it in the words of those who loved it most?
Author: H.E. Bates
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Michael Joseph
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In The Vanished World, one of England's most beloved storytellers turns the lens upon himself, conjuring with extraordinary vividness the vanished landscapes, communities, and rhythms of English rural and working-class life in the early twentieth century. H.E. Bates chronicles his childhood and formative years in Northamptonshire, painting an intimate and luminous portrait of a world shaped by horse-drawn carts, boot-and-shoe factories, and the slow turning of seasons — a world that would be irrevocably swept away by the tides of modernity and war. With the same lyrical precision that defines his finest fiction, Bates presents his early encounters with literature and nature as the twin forces that would forge his remarkable literary identity. This autobiography stands as a testament to the power of place and memory in the making of a writer, suffused with the warmth, wit, and sensory richness that made Bates one of the great chroniclers of English country life. His prose, always elegant and deceptively understated, illuminates not merely a personal past but a collective one — a window into an England that has all but ceased to exist. For readers who have long admired the author of The Darling Buds of May, this memoir raises an irresistible question: how does a world disappear, and what remains of it in the words of those who loved it most?