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Hunangofiant y prifardd o sir Benfro, Eirwyn George. Cyfrol hwyliog a difyr yn olrhain hanes y gAur diwylliedig a hynaws a fu'n driw i'w fro enedigol yng ngogledd sir Benfro.
Author : Eirwyn George
Publisher : Y Lolfa
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1847716067
Hunangofiant y prifardd o sir Benfro, Eirwyn George. Cyfrol hwyliog a difyr yn olrhain hanes y gAur diwylliedig a hynaws a fu'n driw i'w fro enedigol yng ngogledd sir Benfro.
Author : Einion Evans
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Welsh poetry
ISBN :
Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher : Land of the Living
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 9780708316252
In this novel, Peredur defies both his mother's hostility and his brothers' lack of concern to seek out the truth of his father's death and to take part in a protest against the 1969 Investiture that goes violently wrong. Only at the end when Amy Parry faces death can reconciliation be achieved.
Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher : Seren Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Emyr Humphreys has written six long stories for and about the elderly. In these stories Humphreys explores change: political, social and physical, and its effects on the individual and society. The stories also represent an exploration of what the experience of age can offer the twenty-first century.
Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780708315651
A paperback reprint of the second of seven novels in the sequence The Land of the Living by a Welsh master of fiction in English, following Amy Parry and her friend Enid as they embark on college life in the 1920's, nurturing an interest in nationalism, socialism and women rights, and as they deal with lovers and seek a role in life. First published in 1978.
Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher : Seren Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781854112460
New edition of a history of Wales. Includes a Postscript written in the context of the millennium as a fixed point in the development of welsh identity. Emyr Humphreys shows how literature in walcs has reshaped and reasserted Welsh identity in the face of English cultural imperialism. Figures such as Talicsin (a sixth century poet), Myrddin (Merlin), the bards of medieval princes, Dr John Dee, Iolo Morganwg, Mabon, Lloyd George, Saunders Lewis have all redefined the image of Wales in their own historical periods. wales has been, in turn, a bastion of British Christianity, the basis of Tudor imperialism, a haven for Romantics, a leader of Liberalism and Socialism, and the inspiration for twentieth century Welsh nationalism. Tracing the links in this chain Humphreys identifies a situation increasingly common in Europe and elsewhere: the preservation of a national past in the context of an international future. His book reflects the vital relationship between literature and identity, between poetry and politics.
Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781022233676
Widowed farmer Gethin is content with his quiet life in the Welsh countryside. But when a developer offers him a generous sum for his land, Gethin is faced with a difficult decision. Torn between preserving his family's legacy and securing their financial future, he must find a way to balance his obligations to the past and the present. A moving and thought-provoking novel from one of Wales' most celebrated writers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher : Seren
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1781722242
A Toy Epic is the story of three boys moving towards the threshold of adult life in the 1930s. From differing backgrounds their lives cross and touch until they become firm friends. Each of them, Michael, Albie and Iorwerth, take up the story in turn, creating their own particular world and contriubting to the composite picture of life in 'one of the four corners of Wales'. Significantly, A Toy Epic is Wales' most important war novel, the dominant central theme of the book. It is framed by the two World Wars, and their shadows, one gone and one looming, colour the novel dark. War is the ultimate representation in the book of a dilemma: that war, although a threat to the existence of civilisation, can also advance it. A Toy Epic is Wales' shining example of modernism. Humphreys, in this book at least, is a modernist in the exact sense of the word. He experiments with form (in the footsteps of Woolf - in particular The Waves which folds an avuncular arm around A Toy Epic from beginning to end), but also he is conducting these experiments at the fault lines of fear and exaltation that the early part of the twentieth century inspired in its artists. A Toy Epic is a marvellous example of modernist techniques employed to condense the reading experience whilst opening up the riches of the prose's potential. It is also a very moving story of three boys growing up, about childhood, and Welsh childhood specifically, between the wars; it is about church versus chapel, about class, about different types of masculine identity, about prospects, about sex, marriage and about death. As M. Wynn Thomas points out in his full and excellent introduction to this edition, the boys represent the polarities at work in Wales during the time; the anglicanisation of Wales from without and within, the erosion of tradition, the significant internal migrations to the coast. Seldom has the country been so tellingly portrayed.
Author : Emyr Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 9780708316269
The 5th in a series, this work conveys the conflicts and passions of a small group of individuals in Wales, weighing them against the turmoil caused by war and its effects on a significantly changing Britain.