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(0)R. F. (Ronald Frederick) Delderfield
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Swann Family saga volume 1
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Publication Date
1970
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English
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Adam Swann, scion of an army family, returns home in 1858 after service with Her Majesty's army in Crimea and India, determined to build his fortune in the dog-eat-dog world of Victorian commerce. Swann is soon captivated by Henrietta, a high-spirited daughter of a local mill owner. As Swann works to build his name, he and Henrietta share adventures, reversal, and fortune, from the slums to booming industrial cities to the settled pulse of the English...
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Craddock Family Saga volume 2
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Publication Date
1968
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English
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R. F. Delderfield concludes his bestselling A Horseman Riding By saga of twentieth-century England with a novel that follows the Craddock family through the end of World War II and the challenges of a new era Paul Craddock's village in rural Devon has endured despite the heartbreak and sorrows of war. The landowner and his family have also known their share of loss. But now, as England struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II, he and...
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Swann Family saga volume 3
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Publication Date
1973
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English
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"At the center of Give Us This Day stands Adam Swann: aging but still indomitable; still as much in love with Henrietta as he was when he first lifted her to the croup of his horse and carried her away; now surrounded by his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Through their eyes and his, Delderfield, with his matchless sense of English history, shows us the revolutionary ferment of a country moving with ever-increasing rapidity into the...
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1972
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English
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David Powlett-Jones returning from the WWI shell-shocked, becomes a compassionate headmaster, whose personal life has a full share of sorrow, drama, and love. The author makes a statement about what school life was really like for English boys.
5) Diana
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1960
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English
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From the New York Times–bestselling author of God is an Englishman comes the timeless story of a love that could not be denied, set in the countryside of early twentieth-century England. Fifteen-year-old John Leigh is living with his aunt and uncle in a small Devon village when he meets the girl fated to change his life. From the moment he first sees Diana Gayelorde-Sutton astride a horse, looking as poised and regal as a queen, he falls irrevocably...
Author
Series
Swann Family saga volume 2
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Publication Date
1971
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English
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The eagerly awaited reissue of the second novel in R. F. Delderfield's classic God Is an Englishman series Theirs Was the Kingdom is a stirring saga of England in the late 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution takes hold, forever changing the landscape of England and her people. The 1880s in England were a laissez-faire decade of national optimism and prosperity, of rampant colonialism, typhoid epidemics, and a Diamond Jubilee. This follow-up...
