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George Ewart Evans

    George Ewart Evans war ein angesehener Autor, der als wegweisender Volkskundler und Oral-Historiker gefeiert wurde. Seine Schriften untersuchten eingehend verschwindende Bräuche und die Lebensweise im ländlichen Suffolk. Durch seine Arbeit fing er die authentischen Stimmen und Erfahrungen von Gemeinschaften ein, die vom Vergessen bedroht waren. Evans bewies auch sein Können als Geschichtenerzähler und bereicherte die literarische Landschaft mit seinen Kurzgeschichten, Romanen und Gedichten.

    Voices of the Children
    The Crooked Scythe
    The Leaping Hare
    The Horse in the Furrow
    The Farm and the Village
    Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
    • Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay

      • 272 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden
      4,4(97)Abgeben

      Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay is a vivid portrait of the rural past of Blaxhall, a remote Suffolk village, in the time before mechanization changed the entire nature of farming, the landscape and rural life for good.

      Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
    • From them we learn how farming supported and bound together the people of the village into a community. Imaginatively illustrated with integrated photographs and black and white line drawings, this is the fourth book in the author's classic series about the farm and the old farming community in East Anglia.

      The Farm and the Village
    • The Suffolk Punch - that sturdy, compact draft horse of noble ancestry - was, until mechanisation, the powerhouse of the East Anglian farming community.

      The Horse in the Furrow
    • The Leaping Hare

      • 288 Seiten
      • 11 Lesestunden
      4,3(101)Abgeben

      The Leaping Hare is a rare and remarkable book about every aspect of the life and legend of the wild hare, exploring nature, poetry, folklore, history and art.

      The Leaping Hare
    • The Crooked Scythe

      • 224 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden
      4,0(1)Abgeben

      This anthology is drawn from his writings about the memories of men and women of a past era - farm labourers, shepherds, horsemen, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, sailors, fisherman, miners, maltsters, domestic servants and many others.

      The Crooked Scythe
    • Voices of the Children

      • 176 Seiten
      • 7 Lesestunden
      4,1(8)Abgeben

      Set in a rural mining village in South Wales in the years leading up to the Second World War, this book recreates a magical but alive world that will resonate with our memories, real and imagined, of childhood.

      Voices of the Children
    • Pattern Under the Plough

      • 256 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden
      3,4(3)Abgeben

      Pioneering book of oral history, The Pattern Under the Plough shows that even in modern societies, governed by science and technology, there are still traces of a civilisation whose beliefs were bound to the soil and whose reliance on the seasons was a matter of life or death.

      Pattern Under the Plough
    • This volume collects all of George Evans' EC horror. It features "Blind Alleys," one of the most chilling and famous EC stories (adapted for the 1972 movie Tales From the Crypt). A man who abused residents of a home for the blind winds up in an impossibly narrow corridor lined with razor blades as a ravenous dog closes in. "In Gorilla My Dreams," an innocent man's brain is transplanted into a gorilla ... who is then blamed for the death of his former self and hunted down. And in our titular tale, "A Slight Case of Murder," four pretty young women are each gruesomely murdered inside locked rooms with no way for the killer to get in or out. But one man thinks he knows who's behind it. In addition, A Slight Case of Murder and Other Stories also includes Evans's unforgettable adaptation of the Ray Bradbury story "The Small Assassin!" This book superbly showcases these classic comic book stories and enhances the reader's experience with commentary and historical and biographical detail by EC experts.

      A Slight Case Of Murder And Other Stories