{"product_id":"touching-greece-gordon-g-hall-9781068694103","title":"Touching Greece: Short Stories, Articles, and Poems","description":"I am an Englishman in Greece. What brought me here originally was a sense of challenge, to travel alone at the sort of age when most of my countrymen are toasting their slippers in front of a fire - or pruning their roses. I cannot say why I chose Greece. Perhaps it was a sense of solidarity in the face of Crisis, a vague idea that if I was going to spend my English pension anywhere then it might as well be in a country that needed it! But above all there is I think in the hearts of many Englishmen a feeling of affinity with Greece. Ancient Greece was part of our education, but there is also a sort of Byronic impulse towards this country.As time went by I came to love the country. I started to write about my experiences. I began to record just a little of how I felt, and feel, about this land and its wonderful people. I tried to capture the strengths and exasperating little weaknesses with humour and with empathy. The result is a catholic collection of stories and articles. Some are serious, a few are satirical, others are self-deprecating, whilst yet others are just stories, usually based on fact. In the articles and short stories I have carefully avoided getting serious over the devastating politico-economic issues that have beset Greece and her people over the past few years. The poems provide some punctuation. Three are sonnets, a form I find stimulating in that the restrictions of rhyme and metre add formality to the expression of ideas and emotions. I would like to thank, wholeheartedly, the many Greek people who have been so kind to me and from whom I have 'stolen' the ideas for these stories. Their courage, optimism, and sense of enjoyment has been infectious, and I hope I have captured just a little of that in this anthology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gordon G. Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1068694106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781068694103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crustybooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.48d","brand":"Gordon G. Hall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45898179019007,"sku":"9781068694103","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9326db98-0b3a-4fee-bb8e-2f6f672fd4f7.jpg?v=1721375686","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/touching-greece-gordon-g-hall-9781068694103","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}