Notwithstanding
Subtitle: stories from an English village
By: Louis de Bernières
Contributors: De Bernières, Louis
Series: Vintage international
Publisher: Vintage International
Published: 2016-10
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781101969878
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Villages; English Short stories; British National characteristics; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Comic, wistfully nostalgic stories about English village life, from the author of Corelli's Mandolin"--

As the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged. It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentrics almost fit in.
Table of contents: title: Archie and the birds --; title: Obadiah Oak, Mrs. Griffiths and the carol singers --; title: Archie and the woman --; title: The Girt Pike --; title: Mrs. Griffith' part-time job --; title: The auspicious meeting of the first two members of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet --; title: Mrs. Mac --; title: Colonel Barkwell, Troodos and the fish --; title: All my everlasting love --; title: The Devil and Bessie Mauderfield --; title: The auspicious meeting of the third member of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet with the first two --; title: Footprint in the snow --; title: The happy death of the General --; title: Rabbit --; title: This beautiful house --; title: Talking to George --; title: The auspicious meeting of the first member of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet with the fourth --; title: Silly bugger (1) --; title: Silly bugger (2) --; title: Horatio and all that --; title: The broken heart --; title: The death of Miss Agatha Feakes --; title: Afterword.