The Hills and the Vale

by Richard Jefferies

Overview

Reproduction of the original: The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783732698493
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	05/23/2018
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.44(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction Edward Thomas; 1. Choosing a cow; 2. Skating; 3. Marlborough forest; 4. Village churches; 5. Birds of spring; 6. The spring of the year; 7. Vignettes from nature; 8. A king of acres; 9. The story of Swindon; 10. Unequal agriculture; 11. Village organization; 12. The idle earth; 13. After the county franchise; 14. The Wiltshire labourer; 15. On the Downs; 16. The sun and the brook; 17. Nature and eternity; 18. The dawn.