Clog Shop Chronicles

By Ackworth, John

Book Id: WPLBN0002952217
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File Size: 197.78 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Clog Shop Chronicles
Author:	Ackworth, John
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction, Short stories
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Clog Shop Chronicles
Historic Publication Date:	1896
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Ackworth, B. J. (1896). Clog Shop Chronicles. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his career as a circuit preacher in Lancashire. Clog Shop Chronicles was the first and most successful of his works. Set in the fictional 19th-century village of Beckside (said to be somewhere between Manchester and Bolton), the book consists of 12 tales of everyday life in a close-knit Methodist community, which continue into Beckside Lights (1897) and Doxy Dent (1899). Based on an entertaining group of characters who gather round the clog shop fire, the stories are sentimental at times, but Ackworth has a nice sense of irony and refrains from Methodist proselytizing. Ackworth was also a student of the Lancashire dialect and the spoken passages in his books are mostly written in a phonetic version of late 19th-century Bolton speech, which I have done my best to reproduce. (Summary by Phil Benson)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Fiction, Short stories