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James Tait Black Memorial Prizes じぇーむず・ていと・ぶらっく きねんしょう

Edition 15 (1933)

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Winners

2 people
Archibald Gordon Macdonell えーじー まくどねーる Winner

A satirical novel that cuts into English rural life with both humor and bite. Using cricket and provincial custom as material, it sketches 1920s England while folding in playful criticism of national character and tradition.

Through cricket and provincial custom, England’s self-portrait comes into view.

254 pages
satirerural lifenational characterhumor
Violet Clifton ゔぁいおれっと くりふとん Winner

A biography of Talbot Clifton that traces his life through family history and memories of travel. The individual life emerges in close relation to land, class, and movement.

One life comes into focus through family history and the memory of travel.

458 pages
biographyfamily historytravelland and class