Gwyn Thomas Książki

Twelve stories are representative of the tragic, melodramatic, sentimental, pathetic, and comic aspects of Balzac's art and testify to his keen sense of irony when observing the human condition.

Most of these stories are set in the 1930s w hen male unemployment in the Rhondda valleys was as high as 42 percent. Poverty, emigration, boredom, and loss of self-r espect are the basis of Thomas''s art, yet the result is not embittered. '