The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy [Hardcover]

Julian Shuckburgh (Adapter), Flora Thompson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1983 | ISBN-10: 0712601104 | ISBN-13: 978-0712601108 | Edition: New edition

Flora Thompson's memoirs of a childhood spent in the Oxfordshire hamlet of Juniper in the 1880s.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Century Publishing Co.; New edition edition (June 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0712601104
• ISBN-13: 978-0712601108
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #306,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born in Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire, Flora Thompson left school at 14 to work in the local post office. She married young, and wrote mass-market fiction to help support her increasing family. In her 60s she published the semi-autobiographical trilogy combined as LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD (1945).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars simple account of a lost lifestyle, December 1, 1999

By 

Manola Sommerfeld (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy by Flora Thompson (Hardcover)

I borrowed this book from the library. I love the illustrations, which very much enhance the story. The author reminisces about the way things were in the English countryside in the 1880's. Her accounts and descriptions might be simple, of everyday tasks that we don't think much about, but i really enjoyed learning about these details.

The book i read, the "Illustrated" version, is an abrigment of the thre volumes. The editors say at the end that the abridgment was done mostly to avoid repetition, which exists in the three books so that they can be read independently of each other.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lark Rise To Candleford, May 9, 2011

By 

Avidreader - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy by Flora Thompson (Hardcover)

This book is just beautiful. The details of the prose invoke a time lost forever. The illustrations are worthy of framing. Simply delightful.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely Book, August 25, 2011

By 

L. Cleavland - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy by Flora Thompson (Hardcover)

This is a lovely version with beautiful sketches and paintings mixed in with Flora Thompson's chronicle of her life in an English hamlet. This looks great on display.