Series:

Coronet Books

5 total works

Cover of To Serve Them All My Days
Young David Powlett-Jones, a Welsh miner's son, is invalided home from France when he suffers severe shell shock on the Western Front. At a remote English public school in Devon the debilitated veteran, himself barely out of his teens, decides temporarily to try his hand at teaching while striving to awaken from the nightmare of World War I -- the national catastrophe that sweeps England out of the comfortable certainties of the Victorian Age into the moral perplexities and harsh economic realities of more modern times.

Cover of Adventures of Ben Gunn

Adventures of Ben Gunn

by R. F. Delderfield

Published December 1963

Cover of Seven Men of Gascony

Seven Men of Gascony

by R. F. Delderfield

Published 1 March 1984

Cover of Farewell the Tranquil Mind

Cover of Give Us This Day

Give Us This Day

by R. F. Delderfield

Published 1 September 1973

Adam Swann has grown old, and is struggling to keep up with the changing times. The Victorian age is giving way to the Edwardian and the horse is being overtaken by the motorcar, with devastating effect on his transport business.

As the new century is born, the Boer war brings tragedy, but even this cannot quench the indomitable spirit of the Swann family.