The Toilers of the Field - Softcover

Jefferies, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473324289 ISBN 13: 9781473324282

Publisher: White Press, 2015

Synopsis

Originally published in 1892, this work by English nature writer, Richard Jefferies, is a collection of his papers that appeared in magazines and newspapers early in his career. Published posthumously, it includes pieces titled 'The farmer at Home', 'An English Homestead' 'The Coming of Summer', and many more delights, exhibiting his great talent at capturing the wonder of the English countryside. We are republishing this work with a brand new introductory biography on Jefferies, to help place this publication in context with his other works.

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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.Jefferies's corpus of writings includes a diversity of genres and topics, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time.

Edition details

• Publisher: White Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473324289
• ISBN 13: 9781473324282
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250