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W.H. Davies
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Young Emma |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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160 |
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1980-11-10 |
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0224018531 |
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Jonathan Cape Ltd |
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1.1 pounds |
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First |
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Product Description
At the age of 50 towards the end of the First World War, the poet W.H. Davies decided it was time for him to effect a change in his life-style and to seek a wife who would share a new life in the country. With disarming honesty, not to say bluntness as to the acts, yet with humour and delicacy, Davies records his trial runs with three women before he finally meets Emma, then pregnant, as she alights from a bus in the Edgware Road. He describes with beguiling innocence the love that develops before calamity overtakes them. When Jonathan Cape first received the manuscript in 1924, he feared that its publication might damage Davies' reputation. At Davies' death in 1940 Cape tried to publish it again but were advised against publication. In 1979, Davies' widow (Emma) died and Cape were finally free to publish the book. The historian C.V. Wedgwood in her foreword to this edition says that Davies' text has had a 60 year history almost as bizarre as Davies' own story of Emma. This is a bizarre but true love story written poignantly by the poet W.H. Davies.
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tennantfamily (United Kingdom) (2009/03/16):
At the age of 50, towards the end of WWI, the poet W.H. Davies decided it was time for him to effect a change in his life-style. It was 10 years since he had published The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp & Davies was lionised in London literary circles. With disarming honesty, sometimes bluntness , but also with humour and delicacy he recalls his attempts to find a wife. This book was not published in his life-time and he had ordered it to be destroyes, but it gives a fascinating glimpse into his private world.
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