The adventures of a boy growing up in the English countryside in the nineteenth century.

Bevis: The Story of a Boy

JEFFERIES, Richard

Children's Books

Puffin

Essays portray the daily life of the inhabitants of rural England and discuss animal behavior and other aspects of natural history

Landscape with Figures: An Anthology of Prose

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Penguin Classics

The countryside is filled with beauty and wonder in these imaginative, idiosyncratic writings, but also cruelty and hardship. They describe the texture of an owl's feather, the colours of autumn and the sound of rooks' wings sweeping across the sky. Yet here too is the grinding toil of reaping the harvest, and the discovery of a gamekeeper's bloody kill. Brimming with intense feeling, these pieces show an acute awareness of the land, and the people on it. 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 Walks In The Wheat Fields

Travel

Penguin Classic

From the father of English nature writing: a superb selection of essays about rural England in the 1800s, with an introduction by the celebrated writer Richard Mabey Richard Jefferies was the most important and imaginative observers of the natural world in the nineteenth century. Trekking across the English countryside, he recorded his responses to everything from the texture of an owl's feather and "noises in the air" to the grinding hardship of rural labor. This fantastic selection of his essays and articles shows a writer who is brimming with intense feeling, acutely aware of the land and those who work on it, and often ambivalent about the countryside. Who does it belong to? Is it a place, an experience, or a way of life? In these passionate and idiosyncratic writings, almost all our current ideas and concerns about rural life can be found. Celebrated nature writer Richard Mabey's introduction to his selection of Jefferies' work discusses the author's life, his views on the paradoxes of rural life, and his place in the tradition of nature writers, and helps us see Jefferies in a whole new way. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Landscape with Figures: Selected Prose and Writings (Penguin Classics)

Essays & Correspondence

After London: Or, Wild England (The World's classics)

Classics

Oxford University Press

The Gamekeeper at Home: The Amateur Poacher (Oxford Paperbacks)

Oxford Univ. Pr.

This book, "After London : or, Wild England", by Jefferies, Richard, 1848-1887, is a replication of a book originally published before 1980. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature.

After London or Wild England (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Romance

Historical

It is sweet on awaking in the early morn to listen to the small bird singing on the tree. No sound of voice or flute is like to the bird’s song; there is something in it distinct and separate from all other notes.

Field and hedgerow: The last essays of Richard Jefferies

This Victorian masterpiece is a sensitively written collection of press articles about the countryside in all its seasons, complete with tips on poaching fish and a lament on the industrialization of the land.

The Life of the Fields (Oxford Paperbacks)

Oxford University Press, USA

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Bevis: The Story of a Boy

Bevis: The Story of a Boy

Landscape with Figures: An Anthology of Prose

English Journeys Walks In The Wheat Fields

Landscape with Figures: Selected Prose and Writings (Penguin Classics)

After London: Or, Wild England (The World's classics)

The Gamekeeper at Home: The Amateur Poacher (Oxford Paperbacks)

After London or Wild England (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Field and hedgerow: The last essays of Richard Jefferies

The Life of the Fields (Oxford Paperbacks)