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These Poor Hands - The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales — The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales
These Poor Hands - The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales — The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Adargraffiad, gyda nodiadau llawn, o hunangofiant cynnes B. L. Coombes, yn portreadu caledi a brawdgarwch bywyd dosbarth gweithiol clos y glöwr yn ne Cymru, gyda chyflwyniad llawn gwybodaeth am waith yr awdur gan Bill Jones a Chris Williams. Cyhoeddwyd gyntaf yn 1939; adargraffwyd yn ei ffurf bresennol yn 2002.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
A full annotated re-edition of a classic miner's autobiography being the warm story of B. L. Coombes, portraying the hardship and comradeship of the close-knit mining working-class community in south Wales, with an informative introduction about the author's work by Bill Jones and Chris Williams. First published in 1939. Republished in its present form in 2002.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780708315637
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780708315637
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- These Poor Hands - The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales — The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales
- Sub Title
- The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales
- Awdur / Author
- Coombes, B. L.
- Current Price ex VAT
- £10.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £10.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2011-01-31
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Editor
- Williams, Chris; Jones, Bill
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 208 pages
- Size
- 138 × 216 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Atgofion a Hunangofiannau (yn Saesneg) | EN: Autobiographies and Reminiscences (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Atgofion a Hunangofiannau - Gwryw (yn Saesneg) | EN: Autobiographies and Reminiscences - Male (in English)
- DEWEY code
- National Library of Wales Dewey Code
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
These Poor Hands - The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales , was first published in June 1939. It was an instant bestseller, and its fame catapulted its author into the front rank of ‘proletarian writers’. B. L. Coombes, an English-born migrant, had lived in the Vale of Neath since before the First World War, but only turned to writing in the 1930s as a way of communicating the plight of the miners and their communities to the wider world. These Poor Hands presents, in a documentary style, the working life of the miner as well as the author’s experiences in the lockouts of 1921 and 1926. It demonstrates Coombes’s desire to offer an accurate account of the lives of miners and their families, and carries a sincere moral charge in its description of the waste of human potential that is industrial capitalism in decline. Chris Williams is Professor and Director, Centre for Modern and Contemporary Wales at the University of Glamorgan. Bill Jones is Senior Lecturer in the School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University. They are authors of B. L. Coombes in the Writers of Wales series and the editors of With Dust Still in His Throat - A B. L. Coombes Anthology .
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