The Chimney Corner (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Waugh, Edwin) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Chimney Corner The sketches which were collected by their author under the title of The Chimney Corner were first published as a volume in 1874. Many of them had appeared in a Manchester journal, called The Critic. They are briefer and less elaborate, both in conception and execution, than most of Waugh´s other productions. They may be said to be based on anecdotes rather than stories; and are just such simple and humorous narrations - rough and free-spoken sometimes - as may still be heard on winter nights in the "inglenook of the old Lancashire farmhouse, and in the kitchen of the country inn. Many of them are clearly autobiographical, and furnish reminiscences of Waugh´s own childhood, of his short school-days, and his early companions. The dialect is pithy, and full of odd, ancient, and interesting words, of which "ailo," meaning "shy;" and "chylt-little" for "young," or "small," may serve as instances. The nervous strength of the dialect is illustrated in such sentences as the following: - "He´ll be a greight, stark, strung-backed, wutherin´ Englishman, o´ th´ owd breed, if he´s luck." Two of the stories - "The Nomination" and "The Swallowed Sixpence" - have been often separately printed, and have been much used for public reading; but the finest piece in the volume is the one entitled, "A Berrin´ Posy," which gives an inimitable picture of the sufferings of the honest poor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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