Good Neighbours

This is the story of a full life in an English community, lived first and told afterwards, from within.

W. Rose (Author)

9780521141277, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 10 June 2010

148 pages
21.6 x 14 x 0.9 cm, 0.2 kg

Originally published in 1942, this is the story of a full life in an English community (as The Village Carpenter was) lived first and told afterwards, from within. Walter Rose ranges over the whole life of man-next-door-to-the-fields, the play of children and adults, as well as the never-ending work that is the life and topic of such a society. He writes from a full mind, liking the things and days while he is recalling them. The amusing superficialities turn out to be vital processes; the holiday look gives way; the reader never gets back to tell his friends in the street about it; he stays and helps.

Preface
1. The village
2. The farm
3. Work on the land
4. The village crafts
5. Gnawing it out
6. The cottager's pig
7. Duck breeding
8. Allotments
9. Going uppards
10. The market
11. Rag, tag, and bobtail
12. George
13. The life of the boy
14. Father's ponies
15. Some old customs: Mummers and Maydays
14. The skeleton in the cupboard.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS]