Search results for ""author gwyn thomas""
University of Wales Press Gair am Air: Ystyriaethau am Faterion Llenyddol
A collection of eight articles, lectures and essays on diverse themes found in Welsh and Celtic literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th century including individual chapters on the work of Sion Cent, Daniel Owen and R. Williams Parry.
£16.99
Parthian Books All Things Betray Thee: v. 31
With passion, humour and remarkable insight Gwyn Thomas captures the world of South Wales in the 1830s during the turbulent years of the Merthyr and Newport Risings. As the newly-built foundries enter their first decline, a travelling harpist from the rural north arrives in one of the new towns to find his friends caught in a fiercely-fought industrial dispute, a dispute which quickly spirals out of control. A powerful and sweeping novel by one of Wales's great literary figures, 'All Things Betray Thee', tells the epic story of a people, their joys and victories, but also their sorrows and defeats.
£9.04
University of Wales Press Y Traddodiad Barddol
A lively and scholarly introduction to early Welsh poetry up to the period of court poetry, with notes on style, background and translations of the poems themselves; suitable for sixth form and college students, and anyone interested in Welsh poetic tradition. First published in 1976.
£12.99
Y Lolfa Ymarfer Ysgrifennu Cymraeg
£14.78
Parthian Books The Dark Philosophers
Sex, murder, and a devastating, humour mark these three novellas that Gwyn Thomas wrote in 1946. In Oscar, the narrator of death and exploitation fails to fend off the evil that envelops him. InSimeon, the abuse of sexual and family power ends with violent death, and in The Dark Philosophers itself, the grimly humorous philosophers gather in an Italian café to tell the tragic tale of revenge and manslaughter that they engineer.
£9.99
Parthian Books Gazooka
A small Welsh valley community come together to form a carnival marching band in Gwyn Thomas' farcical exploration of the social, economic and political turbulence abound in twentieth century Wales.
£9.05
Parthian Books The Alone to the Alone
The Alone to the Alone unites Gwyn Thomas's lyrical and philosophical flights of narrative in a satire whose savagery is only relieved by irrepressible laughter. It is Gwyn Thomas' most shaped work: the underlying meaning of South Wales' history is not so much documented as laid bare for universal dissection and dissemination. The novel, with its distinctive plural narration, is a choric commentary on human illusion and knowledge, on power and its attendant deprivation, on dreams and their destruction.
£8.42
Y Lolfa Tales from the Mabinogion
£12.11
