Great Meadow: An Evocation
β Scribed by Bogarde, Dirk
- Book ID
- 108270179
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781448208241
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From 1927 to 1934 the young Dirk Bogarde lived in a remote cottage in the Sussex Downs with his sister Elizabeth and their strict nanny, Lally.
For the children it was an idyllic time of joy and adventure: of gleaning at the end of summer, of oil lamps and wells, of harvests and harvest mice in the Great Meadow.
This lost world, visited fleetingly in A Postillion Struck by Lightning , the first volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography, is seen here through the eyes of an innocent but shrewd eleven-year-old. With great sensitivity and poignancy it captures the sounds and scents, the love and gentleness that surrounded the young boy as the world outside prepared to go to war.
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