The Gale of the World

by Henry Williamson

A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (Book 15)

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The final volume, volume fifteen, of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight . Phillip Maddison is living apart from his wife, Lucy, in the year immediately following the Second World War. He has sold his farm and handed over the proceeds in trust for the family excluding himself. Now living alone on Exmoor he is as ever haunted by the past, and his pro-German views bring him under constant fear of attack. A love affair, the death of his father, and tender relationship with his cousin's two show more daughters are particularly outstanding in a novel full of incident; and thisfinal novel in A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight completes the history of Phillip Maddison while at the same time rounding off an unsurpassed picture of fifty swiftly-changing years. show less

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The Gale of the World

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
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823.9Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-
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PR6045 .I55 .G3Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1900-1960
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