Common People: The History of An English Family
Autor Alison Lighten Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mai 2015
'Part detective story, part Dickensian saga, part labour history. A thrilling and unnerving read'Observer
'Mesmeric and deeply moving'Daily Telegraph
'Remarkable, haunting, full of wisdom'The Times
Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Beginning with her grandparents, Alison Light moves between the present and the past, in an extraordinary series of journeys over two centuries, across Britain and beyond.
Epic in scope and deep in feeling,Common Peopleis a family history but also a new kind of public history, following the lives of the migrants who travelled the country looking for work. Original and eloquent, it is a timely rethinking of who the English were - but ultimately it reflects on history itself, and on our constant need to know who went before us and what we owe them.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141039862
ISBN-10: 0141039868
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: integrated black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141039868
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: integrated black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Alison
Lightis
a
writer
and
critic.
She
is
an
honorary
professor
in
the
Department
of
English
at
University
College,
London,
Honorary
Professorial
Fellow
at
Edinburgh
University
and
a
Senior
Research
Fellow
at
Pembroke
College,
Oxford.
A
regular
contributor
to
theLondon
Review
of
Books,
she
is
the
author
of
the
much-acclaimedMrs
Woolf
and
the
ServantsandCommon
People,which
was
shortlisted
for
the
Samuel
Johnson
Prize.
She
lives
in
Oxford.
Recenzii
In
illuminating
her
own,
Light
serves
upthe
most
powerful
family
history
I
have
ever
read.
Light writesbeautifully. With suchcolourand withperception and lyricismshe clads the past....Common People is part memoir, part thrilling social history of the England of the Industrial Revolution, but above all a work ofquiet poetryand insight into human behaviour. It isfull of wisdom.
This book isa substantial achievement: its combination ofscholarshipandintelligenceis, you may well think, thebest monumentyou could have to all those she has rescued from time's oblivion.
Evocatively written...athrillingandunnervingread
Exquisite...Barely a page goes by without somethingfascinatingon it, betraying Light'sskillin winkling out the mostrelevantormovingaspects of her antecedents' lives, which echo through the generations.
[A] short andbeautifully writtenmeditation on family and mobility.
Intellectually soundandrelevant...arefreshingly modernway of thinking about our past.
Light [is skilled] in probing dark corners of her ancestry and exposing their historical meaning...packed with humanity.
Beautifully writtenand exhaustively researched,Alison Light makes her family speak for England.
Aremarkable achievement...should become aclassic.
Light writesbeautifully. With suchcolourand withperception and lyricismshe clads the past....Common People is part memoir, part thrilling social history of the England of the Industrial Revolution, but above all a work ofquiet poetryand insight into human behaviour. It isfull of wisdom.
This book isa substantial achievement: its combination ofscholarshipandintelligenceis, you may well think, thebest monumentyou could have to all those she has rescued from time's oblivion.
Evocatively written...athrillingandunnervingread
Exquisite...Barely a page goes by without somethingfascinatingon it, betraying Light'sskillin winkling out the mostrelevantormovingaspects of her antecedents' lives, which echo through the generations.
[A] short andbeautifully writtenmeditation on family and mobility.
Intellectually soundandrelevant...arefreshingly modernway of thinking about our past.
Light [is skilled] in probing dark corners of her ancestry and exposing their historical meaning...packed with humanity.
Beautifully writtenand exhaustively researched,Alison Light makes her family speak for England.
Aremarkable achievement...should become aclassic.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations and Credits
Family Trees
Preface
Prologue: A Child’s Sense of the Past
Part One: Missing Persons
1. Evelyn’s Grave
2. Hope Place
Part Two: Tall Stories
3. The Road to Netherne
5. Albion Street
Postscript
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
Family Trees
Preface
Prologue: A Child’s Sense of the Past
Part One: Missing Persons
1. Evelyn’s Grave
2. Hope Place
Part Two: Tall Stories
3. The Road to Netherne
5. Albion Street
Postscript
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index