by Winifred Holtby · BBC Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781849902038
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«South Riding» is the classic novel by Winifred Holtby, published by BBC Books in paperback (560 pages, in English).
In interwar Yorkshire, Sarah Burton, a modern and ambitious teacher, returns to her homeland to run the local school after the death of her fiancé. There she clashes with Robert Carne, a conservative landowner tormented by the past, while the community faces crisis and social change. A story of class, gender and politics.
The novel, originally published in 1936, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. This edition accompanies the BBC television adaptation, with an introduction by Andrew Davies.
For readers of British classics and historical fiction, with an interest in interwar England and its social tensions.
