What is The Darkness of the Morning?
{{italictitle}} '''''The Darkness of the Morning''''' is a [[novel]] by [[Gordon Parker]]. It was published in 1975. The novel is about [[coal]] miners in 19th-century England. It follows the lives of fictional coal miners and their families through the great [[strike of 1844]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.durhamintime.org.uk/durham_miner/great_strike.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2019-12-17 |archive-date=2019-12-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217130017/http://www.durhamintime.org.uk/durham_miner/great_strike.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> the [[Crimean War]], and the [[Hartley Colliery disaster]] of 1862.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://iln.org.uk/iln_years/year/1862a.htm | title=Illustrated London News 1862 Hartley disaster }}</ref> The book was widely and positively reviewed. In 1978, it was re-published in English with commentary in Russian for school reading.<ref>Parker, Gordon, 1978, ''The Darkness of the Morning'', Progress Publishers: Moscow.</ref> ==References== <References/> {{lit-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Darkness of the Morning, The}} [[Category:1975 books]] [[Category:English novels]]