After London; Or, Wild England (eBook, ePUB) - Jefferies, Richard
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Richard Jefferies' 'After London; Or, Wild England' is a post-apocalyptic novel set in a future England that has been transformed by environmental disaster. The book explores the struggle for survival in a world where civilization has collapsed, and nature has reclaimed the land. Jefferies' vivid descriptions of the landscape and the characters' quest for food and shelter create a haunting and immersive reading experience. The novel's portrayal of a desolate yet beautiful world reflects the late 19th-century concerns about industrialization and its impact on the environment. Jefferies' lyrical…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Richard Jefferies' 'After London; Or, Wild England' is a post-apocalyptic novel set in a future England that has been transformed by environmental disaster. The book explores the struggle for survival in a world where civilization has collapsed, and nature has reclaimed the land. Jefferies' vivid descriptions of the landscape and the characters' quest for food and shelter create a haunting and immersive reading experience. The novel's portrayal of a desolate yet beautiful world reflects the late 19th-century concerns about industrialization and its impact on the environment. Jefferies' lyrical prose style and attention to detail elevate 'After London' to a work of literary merit, blending elements of science fiction and pastoral literature. Readers will find themselves captivated by the eerie atmosphere and thought-provoking themes presented in this early example of dystopian fiction. Scholars of eco-criticism and Victorian literature will appreciate the significance of Jefferies' work in the context of the period's changing attitudes towards the natural world.
Autorenporträt
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.