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Morlais
Morlais
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Morlais yw nofel golledig Alun Lewis (1915-1944) yn dyddio o'r 1930au, yn portreadu datblygiad bachgen ifanc yng nghymoedd diwydiannol llymion de Cymru. Mae'r nofel, a ysgrifennwyd pan oedd Lewis yn ei ddauddegau, yn arwydd cynnar o'r ddawn lenyddol a amlygwyd yn llawn ymhen pum mlynedd.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
Morlais is Alun Lewis's lost novel from the 1930s, a Lawrentian story of a young boy growing up in the poverty-stricken industrial valleys of south Wales. Lewis (1915-1944) was the outstanding writer of World War Two and Morlais , written in his mid-twenties, is an early indication of the talented writer he would become just five years later.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781722800
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781722800
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Morlais
- Awdur / Author
- Lewis, Alun
- Current Price ex VAT
- £12.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £12.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2015-07-23
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Seren
- Media Type (EN)
- Hardback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr caled
- Pages
- 264 pages
- Size
- 135 × 208 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Nofelau a Storïau ar Gyfer Oedolion (yn Saesneg) | EN: Adult Fiction and Stories (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Ffuglen Lenyddol a Chyffredinol (yn Saesneg) | EN: General and Literary Fiction (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Alun Lewis (1915-1944) was born and brought up near Aberdare in south wales, the so of teachers. He read history at Aberystwyth and Manchester, and after a brief period teaching enlisted in the Royal Engineers in 1940 despite his pacifist inclination. He transferred to the South Wales Borderers and eventually travelled to the war in India and Burma, where he died on active service in March 1944. Becoming a soldier had had a galvanizing effect on Lewis’ writing: Raiders’ Dawn, a collection of poems appeared in 1942, and early in 1943 The Last Inspection, a book of stories was published. Both volumes received much critical acclaim. A second poetry collection, Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets was published in 1945 and his Indian stories, with some letters, appeared in In the Green Tree (1948). His Letters to My Wife was published in 1989, a Collected Stories in 1991, and a Collected Poems in 1994.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Morlais is Alun Lewis’s unpublished novel from the late1930s. The Lawrentian story of a young boy growing up in the poverty stricken industrial valleys of south Wales, it is also reflects Lewis’ own experiences, particularly his search for self knowledge and his conviction that he would be a writer. Miner’s son Morlais Jenkins is already being educated away from his background at grammar school when he is adopted, on the death of her own son, by the wife of the local local colliery owner. Morlais’ parents recognize the opportunity for their son to make a better future, but they must all pay a great price. Stifled by middle class life, his adoptive mother recognizes that Morlais will be a poet and encourages him to be neither working class or middle class, but true to his talent. Full of vivid descriptive passages of life in the fictional mining valley, and centred on the conflicted character of Morlais and the decisions he faces over his two families, his two social backgrounds, and his desire to be a poet, the novel is an enthralling journey through the life of a young boy becoming a young man. Alun Lewis (1915-1944) was the outstanding writer of World War Two and Morlais, written in his mid twenties, is an early indication of the talented writer he would become just five years later. This edition is accompanied by an Afterword by Lewis’ biographer, John Pikoulis.
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