A beautiful lost classic of English countryside literature. During the Second World War, John Stewart Collis left his comfortable academic life to work on the land for the war effort. Set in the south of England, his account comprises whatever happens to take his fancy, ranging from humorous sketches of the characters he works alongside, mini-essays such as “Contemplation upon Ants,” “Meditation while Singling Mangolds,” to celebrations of the earth worm, pea and potato. Exquisitely written, the book is an enchanting read.

The Worm Forgives the Plough

COLLIS, JOHN STEWART

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage Classics

The worm forgives the plough

Penguin

Modern Classics Worm Forgives The Plough

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin Classic

An academic and writer, during the Second World War John Stewart Collis was put to agricultural work. Clearing and thinning an Ash wood, he found a meditative peace and an earnest pleasure in the use of axe and bill-hook. The Wood contains his beautiful, thoughtful writing on the joys of nature and of a life of activity, how a love of the sun affects a man, and the progression of nature that sees each plant - hawthorn, honeysuckle, larch, elder - have its hour.  Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

English Journeys the Wood

Travel

Leo Tolstoy (A polestar pictorial biography)

Burns & Oates

Collis reviews the evolution and functions of the human body, not in strictly physiological terms but in a blending of the poetic and the scientific that underscores the joy and wonder of man

Living with a Stranger

MacDonald and Janes

The Carlyles: A Biography of Thomas and Jane Carlyle

Dodd, Mead, and Company

Via scientific data and poetic meditations the author reveals the aesthetic and physical properties of light, water, and vegetation while condemning man's continual abuse of the earth's resources

The Vision of Glory: The Extraordinary Nature of the Ordinary

Science & Math

George Braziller

Collis reviews the evolution and functions of the human body, not in strictly physiological terms but in a blending of the poetic and the scientific that underscores the joy and wonder of man

Living With a Stranger: A Discourse on the Human Body

Medical Books

Living With a Stranger

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