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The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

by W. H. Davies

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  1. Preface by George Bernard Shaw

    15:14

  2. I. Childhood

    15:47

  3. II. Youth

    15:14

  4. III. Manhood

    13:16

  5. IV. Brum

    9:06

  6. V. A Tramp's Summer Vacation

    9:21

  7. VI. A Night's Ride

    14:23

  8. VII. Law in America

    13:35

  9. VIII. A Prisoner His Own Judge

    14:07

  10. IX. Berry Picking

    13:14

  11. X. The Cattleman's Office

    19:53

  12. XI. A Strange Cattleman

    14:33

  13. XII. Thieves

    8:40

  14. XIII. The Canal

    9:57

  15. XIV. The House-Boat

    16:54

  16. XV. A Lynching

    12:01

  17. XVI. The Camp

    13:25

  18. XVII. Home

    15:26

  19. XVIII. Off Again

    15:01

  20. XIX. A Voice in the Dark

    18:58

  21. XX. Hospitality

    7:25

  22. XXI. London

    22:49

  23. XXII. The Ark

    20:31

  24. XXIII. Gridling

    21:30

  25. XXIV. On the Downright

    17:01

  26. XXV. The Farmhouse

    17:28

  27. XXVI. Rain & Poverty

    10:19

  28. XXVII. False Hopes

    11:23

  29. XXVIII. On Tramp Again

    18:50

  30. XXIX. A Day's Companion

    9:20

  31. XXX. The Fortune

    9:46

  32. XXXI. Some Ways of Making a Living

    10:14

  33. XXXII. At Last

    17:12

  34. XXXIII. Success

    11:31

  35. XXXIV. A House to Let

    11:23

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Childhood memories begin in the Church House, a public house kept by Davies's grandfather, a retired sea captain. Trips to Bristol aboard the Welsh Prince bring rough weather, family pride and affectionate recollections of a vessel whose unreliable arrivals became local gossip. Davies also recalls his grandparents taking in their three grandchildren, his schoolboy fights, football and a period of petty theft. His account mixes gratitude for a comfortable home with frank admissions about his own behaviour.

Later, a lodging-house kitchen opens onto another way of life. Men make artificial flowers and wire household goods, sort rags and bones, or prepare for a day's selling. Davies, carrying a small stock of goods, a Bible and a volume of Wordsworth, encounters unfamiliar slang and the suspicion directed at travelling grinders. These closely observed scenes give the autobiography its interest today: family history sits alongside the practical details, misunderstandings and social judgments of life on the road.

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W. H. Davies

W. H. Davies (1871-1940), in full William Henry Davies, was a Welsh poet and writer who spent years of his life tramping across the United Kingdom and the United States. His poems took up hardship, nature, his wandering adventures and the characters he met. Critics class his work as Georgian, though its themes and style differ from that group.

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First published
1908
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
160
Language
English
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