"Cover" -- "Contents" -- "I. Jefferies' Life and Times" -- "II. The Rural Vision: From Article to Essay" -- "III. The Country Books" -- "IV. The Story of My Heart" -- "V. The Romances: Wood Magic, Bevis, and After London" -- "VI. Jefferies' Fiction" -- "VII. The Final Essays" -- "Bibliography" -- "Index" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "J" -- "K" -- "L" -- "M" -- "N" -- "O" -- "P" -- "R" -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V" -- "W
The selection of Jefferies' work collected in this volume will surely help re-establish Jefferies as one of the greatest writers in this genre.
A collection of articles and letters by Richard Jefferies on agriculture and social change This book brings together previously uncollected essays on the changing conditions of agriculture and rural life in the 1870s and 1880s.
Nature, civilization, violence, poverty, exploitation, and exploration are major themes. Richard Jefferies wrote the novel toward the end of his life.
other man, bondsman, and thus the estates of the nobles are full of men who work during their whole lives for the profit of others. Thus, too, the woods are filled with banditti, for those who find an opportunity, never fail to escape, ...
This book, a critical study of the essays and novels of Richard Jefferies, an English writer of the latter part of the nineteenth century, is an attempt to define the nature of Jefferies' contribution to English literature, and to isolate ...
This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time.
This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time.
Reproduction of the original.
Reproduction of the original: The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Walter Besant
This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time.