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ISBN: 9781854110091
Publication date: February 23, 1995
Price: £8.99
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ISBN: 9781781722244
Publication date: February 23, 1995
Price: £7.19
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A Toy Epic is the story of three boys moving towards the threshold of adult life in the Thirties. From differing backgrounds, their lives cross and touch until they become firm friends. Each of them, Michael, Albie and Iorwerth, take up the story in turn, creating their own particular world and contributing to the composite picture of ’one of the four comers of Wales’.
A challenging novel of childhood and of Wales in the 1930s. First published in 1958, Emyr Humphreys’ A Toy Epic is now viewed as a classic of writing from Wales. This new edition is introduced by M. Wynn Thomas, and includes an Afterword and a fragment from an earlier version of the novel.
Emyr Humphreys
Emyr Humphreys (1919-2020) was born in Prestatyn, Denbighshire. He is the author of twenty novels in English and Welsh, and has also published collections of stories and poetry. He has written screenplays and adapted other works for television and radio, in addition to producing and directing in both of those media. His novels have won the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year, Hawthornden and other prizes.
Photo by Bernard Mitchell.
