Still Glides the Stream
by Flora Thompson
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Still Glides the Stream is considered a minor classic and a fictionalised, if autobiographical, social history of rural English life in the late 19th and early 20th century. It was written by Flora Jane Thompson, an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.Tags
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quiet slow moving view of English village life at the turn of the century. Author of Larkrise to Candleford.
A gentle fictionalised account of growing up in a small village at the start of the twentieth century.
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- Original publication date
- 1948
- People/Characters
- Charity Finch; Reuben Truman; Bess Truman; Mercy Truman; Polly Truman; Stella Pocock (show all 8); Roger Maitland; Arnold Milton
- Important places
- Restharrow, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Epigraph
- I see what was, and is,
and will abide;
Still glides the stream
and shall for ever glide. - First words
- I. The Footpath
The Oxfordshire village of Restharrow has changed little in outward appearance during the last fifty years. - Quotations
- He preferred to work as he had been taught to work, leisurely and lovingly, striving always to approach as nearly as possible his own vision of perfection.
With Charity she was a little more communicative. Once she had met her when the child was searching for violets in a deserted green lane out in the fields and had shown her a blackbird's and a thrush's nest back to back in th... (show all)e same stump, and, afterwards, had lent her a book with coloured pictures of birds which, she had told her, had been written by a country clergyman named Gilbert White. But, on the whole, Mrs. Burdett appeared to be one of those reserved, self-contained natures whose only wish as far as their neighbours are concerned is to be on polite but by no means familiar terms.
There, in a changing outside world, the old country customs and ways of life were observed, the old country principles were honoured, the tender ties of family affection and loyalties were preserved, and from there neighbourl... (show all)y sympathy and goodwill radiated. All this was soon to become but a memory. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And as she once more trod the old footpath way with the sound of running water in her ears, these thoughts gave her an extraordinary sense of comfort and reassurance.
- Original language
- English UK
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- Reviews
- 2
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 13
- ASINs
- 7
