Lucifer Before Sunrise (Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight) [Paperback]

Henry Williamson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight | Publication Date: October 1999

This volume vividly portrays the effects of World War II on agricultural England. Phillip and his family are struggling to maintain and improve their farm despite ill-feeling locally against Phillip's political stance: he widely denigrated as a Fifth Columnist. Phillip is also writing in order to earn sufficient money to keep farm and family, but exhaustion begins to take its toll.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750921560
• ISBN-13: 978-0750921565
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,193,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Williamson's "Lucifer": No angel of light, he., April 1, 2000

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Brian M. Kulesza (Joliet, Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lucifer Before Sunrise (Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight) (Paperback)

As I have mentioned to several readers who have written to me about my "Ancient Sunlight" reviews, it appears that Adolf Hitler is the "Lucifer" referred to in Volume 14 of this almost encyclopedic work.

In a manner of speaking, this book is also devilishly long, perhaps the longest, largest, fattest of them all, advancing the story more and more until the flood that permeates the end of the final volume "The Gale of the World."

This is another great INTERIM part of the overall saga, but if the reader has managed to read all thirteen prior volumes, he or she may by now have grown weary of the extended passages describing the countryside and all of Philip's efforts to promote a re-birth of an agrarian economy in Devon.

However, please do not take this as a deterrent. The complete "Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight" merits more attention in the literary world, even though it not at all "politically correct" to advocate it.

However, having survived the entire saga about three years ago, I cannot blame readers who may preferring skimming some of the volumes rather than fully digesting them.

Please see my review under the title "A Fox Under My Cloak" for more details about the overall work.