The Cherry Tree

Informationen zum Autor Adrian Bell (1901-1980) was born in Lancashire! grew up in London! and was educated at Uppingham School which he hated. His father! news editor of the Observer! was a republican and a socialist and had no truck with university education. His son was to do something useful; in 1920 he went to East Anglia to work as a farm apprentice. He subsequently became a farmer himself. These experiences provide the material for his famous rural trilogy! Corduroy! Silver Ley and The Cherry Tree. In total he wrote over twenty-five books! he also set the first Times in 1930 and continued to devise crosswords for the paper for the next thirty years. Klappentext Adrian Bell (1901-1980) was born in Lancashire and grew up in London but wished for a life in the open air. This book tells the tale of how he 'wearied of solitude and married a wife.' Zusammenfassung Adrian Bell (1901-1980) was born in Lancashire and grew up in London but wished for a life in the open air. In 1920 he apprenticed himself to a West Suffolk farmer, an experience that would inspire him to farm on his own. His celebrated trilogy Corduroy (1930), Silver Ley (1931) and The Cherry Tree (1932) grew out of that same raw material. The Cherry Tree (1932) finds Bell back at the helm of the Silver Ley farm whose running he took over in the second panel of the trilogy. The farming business remains in a parlous state beset by high costs, and Bell is forced to scale back his ambitions for crop-growing while continuing to breed cattle and horses. But perhaps the greatest upheaval the book describes is the tale of how he 'wearied of solitude and married a wife.'

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Bell, BELL ADRIAN
• Assisted by: Adria Bell (Editor), Adrian Bell (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.2008
• EAN: 9780571240821
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24082-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Series: A rural trilogy; A rural trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; NATURE / General, HISTORY / Social History, The countryside, country life: general interest, Social and cultural history, The countryside, country life, Countryside; Faber Finds; Farming; Rural, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs