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‘Our God is a big man: a tall man much higher than the highest chapel
in Wales and broader than the broadest chapel. For the promised day
that He comes to deliver us a sermon we shall have made a hole in the
roof and taken down a wall. Our God has a long, white beard, and he is
not unlike the Father Christmas of picture-books. Often he lies on his
stomach on Heaven’s floor, an eye at one of his myriads of peepholes,
watching that we keep his laws. Our God wears a frock coat, a starched
linen collar and black necktie, and a silk hat, and on the Sabbath he
preaches to the congregation of Heaven.’
Set in west Wales and among the Welsh of London, and written in the
Biblical cadence which had made its author famous, Caradoc Evans’s
third collection castigates the ignorance, greed and hypocrisy of his
people.
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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
David Caradoc Evans was a Welsh story writer, novelist and
playwright. His first work of fiction was a series of short stories
called My People, published in 1915. He wished to shock the Welsh
out of their complacency and smugness by contrasting the pieties of
non-conformist Christianity with the realities of poverty, meaness
and hypocrisy he had personally experienced.
This early works was originally published in 1920 and is a
fascinating novel of the period. Contents Include; I. Love and
Hate. II. According to the Pattern. III. The Two Apostles. IV.
Earthbred. V. For Better. VI. Treasure and Trouble. VII. Saint
David and the Prophets. VIII. Joseph's House. IX. Like Brothers. X.
A Widow Woman. XI. Unanswered Prayers. XII. Lost Treasure. XIII.
Profit and Glory........ Many of the earliest books, particularly
those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely
scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these
classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using
the original text and artwork.
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My People (Paperback)
Steffan Donnelly; Caradoc Evans
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R403
Discovery Miles 4 030
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In a chapel service in rural Wales, all is not what it seems . . .
A stage adaptation of one of the most celebrated and controversial
short-story collections in the history of Anglo-Welsh literature.
Originally published in 1915, the searing stories of My People -
darkly comic, poignant, with flashes of savagery - exposed the
hypocrisy and avarice nestling side-by-side in a Nonconformist
community in the rural West Wales of the early 1900s. First
produced n the centenary year of the publication of the original
collection, this radical reimagining makes us question whether the
events depicted in these remarkable stories are consigned to the
past, or can we discern uncomfortable parallels in our modern life?
This programme text edition was published to coincide with the
world premiere of the stage adaptation on 5 November 2015 at Clwyd
Theatr Cymru, in a co-production with Invertigo Theatre.
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