Penguin Classics: Landscape with Figures

Penguin Classics: Landscape with Figures by Richard Jefferies


ISBN
9780141392899
Published
Released
02 / 09 / 2013
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Dimensions
129 x 198 x 19mm

'The wheat is beautiful, but human life is labour'

Richard Jefferies was the most imaginative and least conventional of nineteenth-century observers of the natural world. 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 labour. This superb 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.

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. This edition also includes further reading.

Selected with an introduction by Richard Mabey
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