Still glides the stream [Hardcover]

Flora Thompson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1948

240 p, line drawings.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 234 pages
• Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press; 1St Edition edition (1948)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0006ARIOK
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,556,209 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).

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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars reminiscences of village life, August 25, 2006

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Sammy Madison (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Still Glides the Stream (Hardcover)

If you enjoyed "Cider With Rosie" by Laurie Lee, you are sure to also like "Lark Rise to Candleford" and "Still Glides the Stream" by Flora Thompson. These three books are all gentle, loving, and humorous recollections of childhoods spent in English villages. I first read "Lark Rise to Candlford" in Junior High. I have read it again almost every year, because it is one of my favorite books, full of the author's appreciation of the out-of-doors and agricultural ways, but I did not know Flora Thompson had written another book. When I received "Still Glides the Stream" in the mail, I was delighted to find that it exactly matches my illustrated "Cider With Rosie" and "Lark Rise to Candleford". All three books have similar covers and feature cut-outs of dried leaves, flowers, and insects, and paintings and sketches of farm and small-town life. In "Still Glides the Stream", Charity Finch, a retired schoolteacher, returns to the village of her childhood after the end of WWII. She remembers what life was like in "Restharrow", a made-up village in Oxfordshire. She has many warm memories of the unique characters and traditions which began disappearing after WWI and even more so after WWII. If you have an affection for old days and old ways, you are sure to find this is a charming, lovely and interesting book.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fine book by Flora Thompson, May 17, 2009

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KC Ryan - See all my reviews

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The book, "Still Glides the Stream" is the fourth volume of an autobiographical series by Flora Thompson, presenting a picture of English country life at the end of the nineteenth century. Charming, and beautifully written. Illustrated. This edition was published in 1948 by Oxford University Press. The first three volumes, "Lark Rise," "Over to Candleford," and "Candleford Green," were reissued in one volume as "Lark Rise to Candleford" in 1945.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Country life around Oxford, before 1900., August 5, 2010

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JMG Millarville, Alberta - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Still Glides the Stream (Hardcover)

Lovers of Lark Rise to Candleford will also enjoy this book. More on the daily lives of country folk before 1900, lovingly retold. There is more character development in this book than in Lark Rise. And less description of the hardships of daily life. This book is more nostalgic, written at the end of the author's life. Her rich descriptions of the countryside around Oxford transport the reader to another place and time.