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Ronald Blythe

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in Acton, Suffolk, The United Kingdom

November 06, 1922

Died

January 14, 2023

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Ronald Blythe CBE was one of the UK's greatest living writers. His work, which won countless awards, includes Akenfield (a Penguin 20th-Century Classic and a feature film), Private Words, Field Work, Outsiders: A Book of Garden Friends and numerous other titles. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded their prestigious Benson Medal in 2006. In 2017, he was appointed CBE for services to literature ...more

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	Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village 4.19 avg rating — 914 ratings — published 1969	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside 4.09 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Time by the Sea: Aldeburgh 1955-1958 3.82 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Word from Wormingford: a Parish year 4.27 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voices Of Akenfield 3.83 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Illusion: England in the Twenties and Thirties, 1919-1940 4.03 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1964 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bookman's Tale 3.64 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Yeoman's House 4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The View in Winter 3.70 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1979 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Year at Bottengoms Farm 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“This is what luxury means—perfect consideration. We gave, they took. It was the complete arrangement. This is luxury.”
― Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

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“But there was a need to be frightened and it was a poor sort of village which lacked something that would put the wind up both inhabitant and traveller.”
― Ronald Blythe, Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside

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“Although an excellent cranky historian, he saw himself as an antiquary, and although the dons and collectors and parsons of his tales are presented as conventional types, they are in fact scary examples of learned lonely bachelors going potty.”
― Ronald Blythe, Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside

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