Depending on who you ask, this is either a three part memoir or a three novel series. I don’t think the issue is one of argument, but of the somewhat ambiguous nature of the books themselves. Written in and published in the 1930s and 1940s, and concerning the years of the 1880s through the 1910s, this series of novels (I looked it up) portrays life in the countryside outside of Oxford and is a kind of cri du coeur of simple, unadorned, and mostly untroubled […]