Richard Jefferies

Broschiertes Buch

After London; Or, Wild England (Part-I)

Beschreibung

A hook: A quiet inquiry into the world, restored for a new generation of readers who listen closely to the land. After London; Or, Wild England (Part-I) gathers Richard Jefferies's intimate nature writing into a single, rediscovered voice. This is a nature writing collection that blends the exacting detail of urban-rural contrast with the soulful clarity of a Walden¿style essay, presenting rural england landscapes in their stubborn, living truth. It is at once a nineteenth century travelogue and a modern invitation to observe the ordinary with uncommon care. In these pages, Jefferies's observations of wildlife and countryside become more than scenery: they illuminate how place shapes mind and mood, how field, hedgerow, and town edge reveal the pressures-and possibilities-of Victorian rural england. The writing bridges public domain breadth and intimate immediacy, inviting both casual readers and classic-literature collectors to relish prose that is clear, accessible, and deeply reverent. The book's value lies in form and voice as much as in subject, making it a touchstone for for nature readers and scholars of nineteenth century england alike. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, it stands as part of a enduring tradition of jefferies nature writing and essay literature anthology.

Autor

John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. Jefferies's corpus of writings covers a range of genres and topics, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), a work of science fiction. For much of his adult life he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings about the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time, but it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 86g
• ISBN-13: 9789354844720
• ISBN-10: 9354844723
• Artikelnr.: 62346593