Highways and Byways in Sussex
Gelesen von Peter Yearsley
E. V. Lucas
(4,318 Sterne; 11 Bewertungen)
A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, gravestone epitaphs and a gentle sense of humour. The author colours the countryside with his nostalgia for times past and regret for the encroaching future, his resentment of churches with locked doors, and his love of deer parks, ruined castles and the silent hills.
(I must add my apologies for my attempts at the Sussex dialect in the chapter on that subject.)
[This book is of Reading Grade of 9.55 (i.e. equivalent to 9½ years of U.S. education. Reading Ease score of 63.72 (on a scale from 100 to 0 .. where 65 is easy, 30 a little hard, 0 difficult). These are Flesch-Kincaid readability scores.] (13 hr 51 min)
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Encyclopaedic
Janelle
(3,5 Sterne)
I was expecting this to be a tour of Sussex, instead it is a veritable encyclopaedia of the events, people, literature and geography of the area. I’m astonished at the volume of information the author accumulated. Not that I benefitted much from it as I fell asleep pretty much every time I listened to it and so have a lot of vague memories of downs, poems and battles etc. Oh and those Sussex accents. The narrator did an excellent job, even in the chapter on accents, and I thank him for his efforts.
Listen on repeat
Julie Cummings
(5 Sterne)
This is one of my go to books when I am anxious or can't sleep. n
please fix
(0,5 Sterne)
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