Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans
Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans
Author(s):
Edward Thomas
Publication Date: 26 March, 2012
Available in all formats
Publisher: The Books Council of Wales
ISBN: 9781909696037
ISBN: 9781909696037
Price: INR 225.99
Description
Table of contents
The Morgan family live at Abercorran House in Balham - they're friendly, welcoming, slightly eccentric and Welsh. Arthur Froxfield becomes a frequent visitor and recounts the stories he heard there of swan maidens, the Castle of Leaves and the house of the days of the year. The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans, originally published in 1913, is Edward Thomas's only novel. Edward Thomas 1878-1917 turned from writing prose to poetry in 1914. His work as a poet has been widely celebrated and admired - Ted Hughes described Thomas as "the father of us all".
Description
The Morgan family live at Abercorran House in Balham - they're friendly, welcoming, slightly eccentric and Welsh. Arthur Froxfield becomes a frequent visitor and recounts the stories he heard there of swan maidens, the Castle of Leaves and the house of the days of the year. The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans, originally published in 1913, is Edward Thomas's only novel. Edward Thomas 1878-1917 turned from writing prose to poetry in 1914. His work as a poet has been widely celebrated and admired - Ted Hughes described Thomas as "the father of us all".
Table of contents
- Cover
- Publisher’s Introduction
- Frontspiece
- Abercorran Street
- The Morgans of Abercorran House
- The Wild Swans
- Hob-Y-Deri-Dando
- Aurelius, The Superfluous Man
- Our Country
- Wool-Gathering and Lydiard Constantine
- Abercorran and Morgan’s Folly
- Mr Torrance The Cheerful Man
- The House Under The Hill
- Mr Stodham, The Respectable Man, and The Dryad
- Green and Scarlet
- Ned of Glamorgan
- The Castle Of Leaves And The Beggar With The Long White Beard
- Mr Stodham Speaks For England – Fog Supervenes
- The House of The Days of The Year
- Philip and The Outlaws of The Island
- What Will Roland Do?
- The Interlude of High Bower
- The Poet’s Spring at Lydiard Constantine