My Gypsy Days

Résumé : "This book is a great; a classic at birth. Lively, vigorous, artistic; pungent and contradictory; full of the mysticism of orientals and the materialism of occidentals... and so extremely, possessively human. The ideal beside book..." In these words 'The Field' described Dora Yates' earlier book, where the Gypsies of many nations speak for themselves through the medium of their own stories. These forty-four tales, twenty-nine from the Continent and fifteen from these islands told in the vernacular, move from laughter to pathos, from delicacy to raciness, from one unexpected incident to the next, with the vigour and invention peculiar to Gypsies. An unpublished Gypsy portrait by Augustus John graces the title-page and there are four photographs of 'raconteurs'. "This book will undoubtedly be appreciated", wrote 'The Times Weekly Edition', "by all who are interested in Gypsy life, and can be warmly recommended to many who simply enjoy a well-told and curious tale for its own sake".