Through the covers : an anthology of cricket writing
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Through the covers : an anthology of cricket writing
Oxford University Press, 1996
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-517) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Cricket, it has often been said, is more than a game. To many it evokes a golden age of gentlemanly conduct and sunlit afternoons on the village green. This book celebrates cricket as a sport, and as a social phenomenon that has grown over the centuries to encompass the professionalism of the Test Match as well as the enduring tradition of amateur tournaments. Very few sports have produced the abundance of literature associated with cricket at every level of the game. In both verse and prose writers have recorded their love of cricket with unequalled passion and enthusiasm, and this collection draws on the widest possible range of material - historical documents, anecdotes, reportage, fictional set pieces and celebratory verse - to create a fascinating literary history. Over 200 years of cricketing heroes and villains, classic matches, notorious controversies, famous players and equally famous writers - names to conjure with like W.G. Grace, Garfield Sobers, Neville Cardus, Frank Keating, John Arlott - are all crowded into these pages, together with lesser-known gems from out-of-the-way country records and local newspapers. Christopher Lee, once described by E.W.
This book is intended for amateur and professional cricketers, anyone interested in cricket, social historians.
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