Archibald Cronin: A Song of Sixpence and a Pocket Full of Rye

For the first time in Russian, the famous duology by A.J. Cronin!
"A Song of Sixpence and A Pocketful of Rye" are the first two lines of a well-known English nursery rhyme, as well as the titles of two equally famous works by A.J. Cronin, written in the finest traditions of the "bildungsroman" by Dickens, Balzac, and Flaubert. The story of a young man from Scotland—dreamy, ambitious, and naive—reflects many autobiographical facts from the author's own life. Cronin narrates his adventures, victories and defeats, losses and gains, loves and disappointments with warm humor and that poignant realism, capable of evoking sympathy and empathy, which distinguishes his original creative style.
The reader will find here the same brilliant narrative gift that marks the author's other novels, which have become modern classics, such as "Hatter's Castle," "The Stars Look Down," "The Citadel," and many others.

Author: A.J. Cronin 

Translator: Igor Kubersky

Pages: 480 (offset). Hardcover

Dimensions: 140x210 mm

Series: Foreign Literature. Big Books