England Their England.

By A G MacDonell

ISBN: 9781509858484

Printed: 1986

Publisher: Folio Society. London

Dimensions 17 × 26 × 3 cm
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Language: English

Size (cminches): 17 x 26 x 3

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In a fitted box. Yellow cloth binding with brown title on the spine. Brown cricket scene and title on the front board.

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England, Their England is an affectionately satirical comic novel of 1920s English urban and rural society by the Scottish writer A. G. Macdonell. It is particularly famed for its portrayal of village cricket. 

Set in 1920s England, the book takes the form of a travel memoir by a young Scotsman who has been invalided away from the Western Front, “Donald Cameron”, whose father’s will forces him to reside in England. There he writes for a series of London newspapers, before being commissioned by a Welshman to write a book about the English from the view of a foreigner. Taking to the country and provincial cities, Donald spends his time doing research for a book on the English by consorting with journalists and minor poets, attending a country house weekend, serving as private secretary to a Member of Parliament, attending the League of Nations, and playing village cricket. The village cricket match is the most celebrated episode in the novel, and a reason cited for its enduring appeal. An important character is Mr Hodge, a caricature of Sir John Squire (poet and editor of the London Mercury), while the cricket team described in the book’s most famous chapter is a representation of Sir John’s Cricket Club – the Invalids – which survives today. The book ends in the ancient city of Winchester, where Macdonell went to school.

 Archibald Gordon Macdonell (3 November 1895 – 16 January 1941) was a Scottish writer, journalist and broadcaster, whose most famous work is the gently satirical novel England, Their England (1933).

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