OVER THE BRIDGE; AN ESSAY IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

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Sky blue coloured hardback book, with gilt tile impressions on the spine. Comes with dust jacket, a tad worn around the edges. The book is in good condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. 231 pages all intact, all pages and text are in good, clean, readable order. This specific edition published in 1957, by The Quality Book Club is a first edition. In this book a leading English poet who is also a distinguished novelist and critic crosses the bridge of the years to record, vividly but tenderly, his childhood and early youth during the first decade of the twentieth century. The Churches lived first in Battersea, then in Dulwich. The father of the family was a post office worker full of boyish enthusiasm for cycling: the mother, the real but tactful head of the household, was a school teacher, proud of her two children and ambitious for them. The book opens on the first day of the century when Richard, aged seven, and his brother Jack, aged eleven are carefully crossing Battersea Bridge, bearing homewards the gift of an aquarium. late Victorian London and its atmosphere are evoked in every line; the gas lamps, the celluloid portrait buttons of General Roberts, a drunken workman pursued by his beaten but rebellious wife, daring ladies in bloomers bicycling in the Park, attended by their servants. Over the Bridge brings the author to the age of seventeen, his reluctant settling into the Civil Service and his inner freedom as a poet when, in his own words: "Suddenly I was armed. Poetry was to be my weapon". N° de ref. del artículo 1287

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