Physical description

Hard cover book. This Little World
Author: Francis Brett Young
Publisher: William Heinemann Limited
Date: 1934
Further Information: Brown Cloth hardcover with lettering and patterning to spine in black. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with the typed text PAT FIC YOU
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service. Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Flyleaf has a stamp from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute.

Summary

This Little World is set in a Worcestershire village in the early 1920s, where the aftermath of the First World War is starting to bring social change. It resembles Young’s later Portrait of a Village (1937). A publisher’s blurb adds that it follows a varied cast of villagers through romances, rivalries, tragedies and triumphs, with lyrical descriptions of the countryside.