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The Day Gone By : An Autobiography
First volume of the autobiography of Richard Adams covering his early life in Taunton, undergraduate days at Oxford and experiences across Omagh, Palestine, Jerusalem, Egypt, Normandy, Denmark, Singapore and Bombay between 1940 and 1947. The account ends with Adams giving Latin tuition to the girl next-door who became his future wife. Adams' early years should be of partic
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Hardcover
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396 pages
Published
April 23rd 1991
by Alfred A. Knopf
(first published April 23rd 1990)
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3.5 stars.
The Day Gone By is Richard Adams's memoir of his early life from his 1920s childhood at home with his parents in Newbury, Berkshire, to his time at boarding school, then life at university in Oxford and his service in World War Two, up to his return home in 1946 and his first meeting with the girl who became his wife.
He was born in 1920, the youngest child of George and Lilian Adams. The early chapters are about his earliest memories, full of wonder at the natural world around him. It ...more
The Day Gone By is Richard Adams's memoir of his early life from his 1920s childhood at home with his parents in Newbury, Berkshire, to his time at boarding school, then life at university in Oxford and his service in World War Two, up to his return home in 1946 and his first meeting with the girl who became his wife.
He was born in 1920, the youngest child of George and Lilian Adams. The early chapters are about his earliest memories, full of wonder at the natural world around him. It ...more
Cool and a bit dry account of the author's growing up in Berkshire in 1920 to the end of World War II.
Very old are the woods;
And the buds that break
Out of the brier’s boughs,
When March winds wake,
So old with their beauty are --
Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.
Very old are the brooks’
And the rills that rise
Where snow sleeps cold beneath
The azure skies
Sing such a history
Of come and gone,
Their every drop is as wise
As Solomon.
Very old are we men;
Our dreams are tales
To ...more
Very old are the woods;
And the buds that break
Out of the brier’s boughs,
When March winds wake,
So old with their beauty are --
Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.
Very old are the brooks’
And the rills that rise
Where snow sleeps cold beneath
The azure skies
Sing such a history
Of come and gone,
Their every drop is as wise
As Solomon.
Very old are we men;
Our dreams are tales
To ...more
An autobiography of the English author of Watership Down, my top 5 childhood book. Interestingly enough, this is only a story of the early period of the author's life, long before he became a writer. It starts off with his childhood spent in the pastoral England in the 20's, goes on through his years at boarding school and the golden student age at Oxford, culminates during WWII army service and reaches a full circle with his coming home back to England to the country of his childhood. Watership
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This is Richard Adams' (Watership Down author) autobiography. A bit slow but I enjoyed it. Maybe because of Watership Down. His descriptions were lovely. Defintely a day gone by.
A well written and wonderful story of growing up in England.
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Adams was born in Newbury, Berkshire. From 1933 until 1938 he was educated at Bradfield College. In 1938 he went up to Worcester College, Oxford to read Modern History. On 3 September 1939 Neville Chamberlain announced that the United Kingdom was at war with Germany. In 194 ...more
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Adams was born in Newbury, Berkshire. From 1933 until 1938 he was educated at Bradfield College. In 1938 he went up to Worcester College, Oxford to read Modern History. On 3 September 1939 Neville Chamberlain announced that the United Kingdom was at war with Germany. In 194 ...more
