Notwithstanding : stories from an English village /
De Bernières, Louis,
Notwithstanding : stories from an English village / Louis de Bernières. - 372 pages ; 21 cm - Vintage international .
"A Vintage International Original" -- title page verso.
Archie and the birds -- Obadiah Oak, Mrs. Griffiths and the carol singers -- Archie and the woman -- The Girt Pike -- Mrs. Griffith' part-time job -- The auspicious meeting of the first two members of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet -- Mrs. Mac -- Colonel Barkwell, Troodos and the fish -- All my everlasting love -- The Devil and Bessie Mauderfield -- The auspicious meeting of the third member of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet with the first two -- Footprint in the snow -- The happy death of the General -- Rabbit -- This beautiful house -- Talking to George -- The auspicious meeting of the first member of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet with the fourth -- Silly bugger (1) -- Silly bugger (2) -- Horatio and all that -- The broken heart -- The death of Miss Agatha Feakes -- Afterword.
"Comic, wistfully nostalgic stories about English village life, from the author of Corelli's Mandolin"-- As the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged. It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentrics almost fit in.
9781101969878 1101969873
2016019922
Villages--England--Fiction.
National characteristics, British--Fiction.
Short stories, English.
Short stories.
Notwithstanding : stories from an English village / Louis de Bernières. - 372 pages ; 21 cm - Vintage international .
"A Vintage International Original" -- title page verso.
Archie and the birds -- Obadiah Oak, Mrs. Griffiths and the carol singers -- Archie and the woman -- The Girt Pike -- Mrs. Griffith' part-time job -- The auspicious meeting of the first two members of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet -- Mrs. Mac -- Colonel Barkwell, Troodos and the fish -- All my everlasting love -- The Devil and Bessie Mauderfield -- The auspicious meeting of the third member of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet with the first two -- Footprint in the snow -- The happy death of the General -- Rabbit -- This beautiful house -- Talking to George -- The auspicious meeting of the first member of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet with the fourth -- Silly bugger (1) -- Silly bugger (2) -- Horatio and all that -- The broken heart -- The death of Miss Agatha Feakes -- Afterword.
"Comic, wistfully nostalgic stories about English village life, from the author of Corelli's Mandolin"-- As the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged. It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentrics almost fit in.
9781101969878 1101969873
2016019922
Villages--England--Fiction.
National characteristics, British--Fiction.
Short stories, English.
Short stories.