PILGRIMS IN A FOREIGN LAND: Tales of the Welsh
London: Andrew Dakers Limited, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Caradoc Evans on the front flyleaf. A collection of seventeen short stories largely concerned with the lives of Welsh country folk. Best known for My People (1915), a short story collection often compared to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and James Joyce's Dubliners, the Welsh writer Caradoc Evans (1878-1945) wished to shock the Welsh out of their complacency and smugness by contrasting the pieties of non-conformist Christianity with the brutal realities of poverty, meanness, and hypocrisy he had personally experienced. He was an important influence on the early and more surreal writing of Dylan Thomas. Small octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with dark blue titles. Minor dust staining to the top edge, with a bit of light foxing to the extremities. The dust jacket is moderately toned, more so along the spine; otherwise very good. Very good / Very good. Item #73678
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