The Oaken Heart: The Story of an English Village at War
What are your war aims, Mrs. Carter? To keep this soul I've got alive. To keep my spirit unenslaved.The Oaken Heart is a testament to the hope and heart that prevailed in England throughout the war: a hope for its future and for its freedom. Written by a bestselling crime novelist as a letter of sorts to her American publisher, it is a deeply personal record of a woman and her town at the dawn of the Second World War. Allingham beautifully follows life in Tolleshunt D'Arcy (codenamed 'Auburn') as the town waits with bated breath for war to break out, through the unsettling calm as war is finally declared, and as they live with the very real t…
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- ISBN: 978-1-914904-95-0
- EAN: 9781914904950
- Produktnummer: 37267734
- Verlag: Agora Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Plattform: EPUB
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Margery Allingham was born in Ealing, London in 1904 to a family immersed in literature. Her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, was published in 1923 when she was 19. Her first work of detective fiction was a serialized story published by the Daily Express in 1927. Entitled The White Cottage Mystery, it contained atypical themes for a woman writer of the era. Her breakthrough occurred in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley. This introduced Albert Campion, albeit originally as a minor character. He returned in Mystery Mile, thanks in part to pressure from her American publishers, much taken with the character. Campion proved so successful that Allingham made him the centrepiece of another 17 novels and over 20 short stories, continuing into the 1960s.
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