Resultados da Pesquisa: 9781910263327

Persephone Books Ltd, 2022. Paperback. New. 328 pages.

. Papeback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Bath: Persephone, 2022. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine as new copy of this enchanting book. Consists of two short, beautifully written memoirs: As It Was (1926) and World Without End (1931). They are about Helen Thomas' life with the poet Edward Thomas. In the first book they meet, fall in love, make love, and get married. The second describes their life until the day Edward left to return to the trenches in France. Read together, they are a powerful love story written with extraordinary frankness for the time. The endpapers and a bookmark are taken from a dress made in the 1930s from a hand block printed fabric designed by Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher called Vernède after the poet Robert Vernède who was killed at Arras on April 9th 1917, the same day as Edward Thomas..