Illustrated Still Glides the Stream

by Flora Thompson

Book Overview

Flora Jane Thompson (5 December 1876 - 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford. Flora, was a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517558416
• ISBN13: 9780517558416
• Release Date: July 1985
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fine book by Flora Thompson

The book, "Still Glides the Stream" is the fourth volume of an autobiographical series by Flora Thompson, presenting a picture of English country life at the end of the nineteenth century. Charming, and beautifully written. Illustrated. This edition was published in 1948 by Oxford University Press. The first three volumes, "Lark Rise," "Over to Candleford," and "Candleford Green," were reissued in one volume as "Lark Rise to Candleford" in 1945.

Still Glides the Stream by Flora Thompson

This is a great book of nature and growing up in turn-of-the-century England by the author of "Lark Rise to Candleford". If you enjoyed reading "Lark Rise" or "Cider With Rosie" by Laurie Lee, you should definitely read this book.

reminiscences of village life

If you enjoyed "Cider With Rosie" by Laurie Lee, you are sure to also like "Lark Rise to Candleford" and "Still Glides the Stream" by Flora Thompson. These three books are all gentle, loving, and humorous recollections of childhoods spent in English villages. I first read "Lark Rise to Candlford" in Junior High. I have read it again almost every year, because it is one of my favorite books, full of the author's appreciation of the out-of-doors and agricultural ways, but I did not know Flora Thompson had written another book. When I received "Still Glides the Stream" in the mail, I was delighted to find that it exactly matches my illustrated "Cider With Rosie" and "Lark Rise to Candleford". All three books have similar covers and feature cut-outs of dried leaves, flowers, and insects, and paintings and sketches of farm and small-town life. In "Still Glides the Stream", Charity Finch, a retired schoolteacher, returns to the village of her childhood after the end of WWII. She remembers what life was like in "Restharrow", a made-up village in Oxfordshire. She has many warm memories of the unique characters and traditions which began disappearing after WWI and even more so after WWII. If you have an affection for old days and old ways, you are sure to find this is a charming, lovely and interesting book.