Ebook: Landscape with figures: selected prose writings
Author: Jefferies Richard, Mabey Richard
- Tags: Country life, Country life--England, English prose literature, English prose literature--19th century, Nature, Literary collections, Biography, English prose literature -- 19th century, Country life -- England -- Literary collections, Nature -- Literary collections, England
- Series: Penguin classics
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: England
- Language: English
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Richard Jefferies was the most imaginative and least conventional of nineteenth-century observers of the natural world. Trekking across the English countryside, he recorded his responses to everything from the texture of an owl's feather and 'noises in the air' to the grinding hardship of rural labour. This superb selection of his essays and articles shows a writer who is brimming with intense feeling, acutely aware of the land and those who work on it, and often ambivalent about the countryside. Who does it belong to? Is it a place, an experience or a way of life? In these passionate and idiosyncratic writings, almost all our current ideas and concerns about rural life can be found.
Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) was the son of a Wiltshire farmer. He never worked the land but made his living from writing, trekking across the countryside with his notebook. He spent much of his life struggling against poverty and tuberculosis, which would eventually kill him at the...