The Life of the Fields - Softcover

Richard, Jefferies

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408633558 ISBN 13: 9781408633557

Publisher: Giniger Press, 2015

Synopsis

This volume contains a wonderful collection of essays written by John Jeffries. John Richard Jefferies (1848 - 1887) was a famous English nature writer, most remembered for his masterful depictions of English rural life. The essays include: “The Pageant of Summer”, “The Field Play”, “Uptill-a-Thorn”, “Rural Dynamite”, “Bits of Oak Bark”, “The Acorn-Gatherer”, “The Legends of a Gateway”, “A Roman Brook”, “Meadow Thoughts”, “Clematis Lane”, “Nature Near Brighton”, and more. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

About this title

Book Description

Richard Jefferies (1848–1887) remains one of the most thoughtful and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. First published in 1884, this volume contains a collection of previously published articles and essays, in which Jefferies describes rural life and folk traditions in England in his highly descriptive style.

About the Author

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. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Giniger Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408633558
• ISBN 13: 9781408633557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276