Brenan's classic account of his years in Yegen, a small town in Andalucia, in the years leading up to the Spanish Civil War. Brenan fled Spain in 1936, visited after the war in 1949 (that account is his The Face of Spain, Item SPN17), and moved back for good in 1953. He was a masterful interpreter of the culture and politics of Spain, and a marvelous prose stylist. Between 1920 and 1934, the author lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen. This book depicts his time there, evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War. It portrays the landscapes, festivals and folklore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, village customs, superstitions and characters. It also includes sterling accounts of visits from Bloomsbury Group friends Ralph and Frances Partridge, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, David Garnett and Roger Fry and a brief evaluation by Brenan of the Bloomsbury Group.  (SPN447, $19.95)