Ystoriau Pharodiau - Idwal Jones - 1944 (Preloved)

A charming and increasingly scarce mid-20th-century Welsh short story collection, Ystoriau Pharodiau brings together a series of finely observed tales rooted in everyday Welsh life.

Written during the wartime years, Idwal Jones’s stories focus on ordinary people, familiar conversations and small community dramas, told with warmth, quiet humour and an ear for spoken Welsh. The title — meaning “Prepared” or “Ready-made Stories” — reflects their anecdotal feel, as if these are tales already circulating in oral tradition, lovingly shaped into literary form.

This is a wonderful example of classic Welsh prose, valued both for its storytelling and for its preservation of social attitudes, language and rhythms that were already beginning to change by the 1940s.

• Gwasg Gomer 1944 (first edition)
• Welsh language
• Hardcover with dust jacket 115 pages
  

Condition: good:  some foxing / age related marks to cover and edges. Little rips to dust jacket.