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Author / Creator:Osborne, Huw Edwin.
Imprint:Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 160 pages).
Language:English
Series:Writers of Wales
Writers of Wales.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11198120
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ISBN:9780708322420
0708322425
9780708321676
0708321674
Language / Script:Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-141) and index.
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Summary:Rhys Davies was a seminal influence in Welsh writing because he was one of the first novelists to depict industrial Wales, and was a highly prolific writer producing some twenty novels and one hundred short stories in a career that spanned six decades. Some of his best known titles are The Withered Root (1927), The Black Venus (1944), The Perishable Quality (1957) and his autobiography, Print of a Hare?s Foot (1969).
Other form:Print version: Osborne, Huw. Rhys Davies. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009 9780708321676
Table of Contents:
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy of the Valleys
  • 'A rainbow wash of the mind'
  • A bohemian in Grub Stree
  • A 'professional Welshman'
  • A 'natural amusing greed'
  • A curious friendliness among the men
  • 'The raw stuff of life'
  • 'Time and theWelsh mountains'
  • Strange embraces' and 'subtle pagan secrets'
  • 'One's own interior liberty'
  • 'Down with passports to art'
  • Dealing in dark murders
  • A 'borderline case'.