Flora Thompson
1) Heatherley
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Formats
Description
Una cálida tarde de las postrimerías del siglo pasado, una muchacha de unos veinte años atravesaba los límites de Hampshire desde uno de sus condados limítrofes. Llevaba un vestido de lana de color marrón y un gorro de piel de castor adornado con dos pequeñas plumas de avestruz colocadas a ambos lados de su cabeza como signos de interrogación. Esa muchacha es Flora Thompson, alias Laura, y el pueblo en cuestión, Grayshott, donde Flora se...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 556 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
The story of three closely-related Oxfordshire communities -- a hamlet, a village, and a town -- and the memorable cast of characters who people them. Based on Thompson's own experiences as a child and young woman, it is keenly observed and beautifully narrated, quiet and evocative.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 704 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A journalist named Daniel arrives to deliver the news that Emma has been left some money. There's a substantial sum to be claimed if Emma can prove her right to the money and there's a rags to riches story in it for Daniel's newspaper. As Robert and Emma contemplate their change in fortunes, Laura, who is fascinated to meet a real writer, shows Daniel around Lark Rise.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 351 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Newcomer Gabriel Cochrane arrives in Candleford with a vendetta against the evil banker Steerforth, who he feels has tricked him into losing his business. Elsewhere, Dorcas makes an ill-judged intervention, Minnie becomes worried that Alfie might fall out of love with her, and Emma is left in a precarious financial position.
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 582 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the relationship of two contrasting communities: Lark Rise, a small hamlet gently holding onto the past, and Candleford, a neighboring market town bustling into the future. When young Laura Timmins leaves Lark Rise for a job at the Candleford post office, she discovers an eye-opening, exciting new world. In the face of scandals and feuds, she must leave her childhood behind.
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 719 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sees the arrival of a dashing and elegant stranger in Candleford. Rich, enterprising, worldly and without a wife, James Dowland is a successful businessman with a string of London hotels and has come to transform Candleford and bring it new prosperity. But not everyone welcomes his entrepreneurial efforts and it isn't long before he is sparring with the spirited yet suddenly flustered Dorcas.