LEADER 00000nim a22004575a 4500 003 MWT 005 20211214071647.1 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 211213s2021 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 9781669313830 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1669313832 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ csp_9781669313830_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT14546045 037 14546045|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Mitford, Mary Russell. 245 10 Our village, volume 1|h[Hoopla electronic resource] / |cMary Russell Mitford. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bSlingshot Books LLC,|c2021. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 50 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Hadleigh Juliette. 520 This book is a compilation of short stories originally published in several series in The Lady's Magazine. Volume 1 covers a period of about 18 months, then later, Volume 2 chronicles the changes when Miss Mitford returns to the village some 2 years later. The book's subtitle is "sketches of rural character and scenery"... and this perfectly describes its contents. People and nature are minutely observed and the language reflects Miss Mitford's exquisite eye for detail and love of the changing seasons and the impact they have on the flora and fauna around her. The village characters are described mainly fondly, but not without the occasional wry reference to their faults! In her introduction to a later edition, Anne Thackeray Ritchie quotes from Miss Mitford's reply to William Elford when asked if her characters and descriptions are true... "Yes, as true as is well possible...you, as a great landscape painter know that in painting a favourite scene you do a little embellish and can't help it, you avail yourself of happy accidents of atmosphere, if anything be ugly you strike it out, or if anything be wanting, you put it in. But still the picture is a likeness." But even if seen through rose-coloured lenses, these gentle little sketches conjure up a time and place long gone and transport us for a while to another, simpler world. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 4 Mystery 650 4 Sci-Fi & Fantasy 655 0 Audiobooks 700 1 Juliette, Hadleigh. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 14546045?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ csp_9781669313830_180.jpeg