The Early Fiction of Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies was a prominent English naturalist during the 19th century, and his essays vividly depicted rural life in England during his era.
Richard Jefferies (1848-87) has long been recognised as an interpreter of English country life and a natural observer with few if any equals.
The countryside is filled with beauty and wonder in these imaginative, idiosyncratic writings, but also cruelty and hardship.
This book contains the following novels:The Land of the Changing Sun by William N. Harben. A Romance of Two Worlds by Marie Corelli. After London by Richard Jefferies. When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells. The Iron Heel by Jack London.
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 ...
An anthology of sporting articles written by author and naturalist Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) who made his living writing about the countryside in which he lived.
The Wessex Landscape of Richard Jefferies
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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 ...
Jefferies' beguiling description of his native Wiltshire, its people, nature and landscape.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Field and Hedgerow: The Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
Bevis: The Story of a Boy
Written in Jefferies' highly descriptive style, these essays describe rural life and nature in England, illustrating folk traditions and important natural events in rural communities.
"Field and Hedgerow" from Richard Jefferies. English nature writer (1848-1887).
Return to Jefferies' Land
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.
About this time he wrote his extraordinary autobiography, The Story of My Heart: An Autobiography (1883).