The Beautiful Years is a tender evocation of West Country childhood in the golden years before the First World War. It is also the first volume in Henry Williamson's tetralogy The Flax of Dream. All four volumes - The Beautiful Years, Dandelion Days, The Dream of Fair Women and The Pathway - are being reissued in Faber Finds, and together they make up the life story of Willie Maddison.
The Flax of Dream is one of the major literary achievements of the twentieth century.
- ISBN10 060020684X
- ISBN13 9780600206842
- Publish Date 10 March 1983 (first published May 1967)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
- Imprint Hamlyn
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English