Times Like These

by Gwyn Jones

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1936

About the author

Son of a miner, Gwyn Jones (1907-1999) became a schoolteacher, then lecturer, then Professor of English from 1940. He was a novelist and short-story writer, translator of The Mabinogion and Icelandic sagas, founder and editor of The Welsh Review. He became Chairman of the Welsh Arts Council and was awarded the CBE (1965), the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon (1963), and the Commander's Cross (1987) of Iceland.

Reviews

[Lucienne Boyce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gwyn Jones was himself a miner’s son, and his novel is an insightful and sympathetic portrayal of the lives of men and women of the south Wales coalfields set during the General Strike of 1926. The novel focusses not only on questions of class, capitalism, and social conditions but is also sensitive to the status and role of women in a patriarchal and male-dominated world. I thought it was a marvellous read.