The Life of the Fields
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- Author: Richard Jefferies
- Date Published: November 2010
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- isbn: 9781108025331
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Richard Jefferies (1848–1887) remains one of the most thoughtful and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had aspirations to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short, factually based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other magazines, drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community into which he had been born, which, when brought together in book form, brought him recognition (though not wealth) and which continued to be read and admired after his early death. This volume, first published in 1884, contains a collection of essays and articles previously published during his career. Written in Jefferies' highly descriptive style, these essays describe rural life and nature in England, illustrating folk traditions and important natural events in rural communities. The mysticism and wonder of the natural world which exemplifies Jefferies' works is fully illustrated in these essays.
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- Date Published: November 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108025331
- length: 276 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The field-play
2. Bits of oak bark
3. The pageant of summer
4. Meadow thoughts
5. Clematis lane
6. Nature near Brighton
7. Sea, sky and down
8. January in the Sussex woods
9. By the Exe
10. The water-colley
11. Notes on landscape painting
12. Village miners
13. Mind under water
14. Sport and science
15. Nature and the gamekeeper
16. The sacrifice to trout
17. The hovering of the kestrel
18. Birds climbing the air
19. Country literature
20. Sunlight in a London square
21. Venice in the east end
22. The pigeons at the British Museum
23. The plainest city in Europe.
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