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Originally Posted by issybird
I own the entire series in pbook, acquired with some difficulty over the years. There goes the value of my collection, lol! Angela Thirkell wrote the same book over and over, but if you like that sort of thing, you'll eat them up.
The only caveat I have is that the books take on a sour note as time passes. The post-war books don't have the same cheer of the pre-war books. The whole series serves as a window onto a conservative's view of social change in England in the middle of the 20th century.
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Very true! The viewpoint if very upper-middle class conservative British society, for which the post-war years were an unpleasant reality.
I too had put together a pbook collection - Moyer Bell had a wonderful paperback series with splendid covers. Penguin issued some titles too.
A quick peek into the High Rising ebook - appears cleanly formatted (not a cheap scan of a paperback page) - but no maps or chapter divider art that was in the Moyer Bell editions.