Richard Jefferies

Hodge and His Masters 2 Volume Set

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A vivid and realistic description of rural life in Victorian England, first published in 1880, which helped establish Jefferies' reputation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 694
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9781108035842
• ISBN-10: 1108035841
• Artikelnr.: 34570526

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1: Preface
1. The farmers' parliament
2. Leaving his farm
3. A man of progress
4. Going downhill
5. The borrower and the gambler
6. An agricultural genius - old style
7. The gig and the four-in-hand. A bicycle farmer
8. Haymaking. 'The Juke's country'
9. The fine lady farmer. Country girls
10. Mademoiselle, the governess
11. Fleeceborough. A 'despot'
12. The squire's 'round robin'
13. An ambitious squire
14. The parson's wife
15. A modern country curate. Volume 2: 1. The solicitor
2. 'County Court day'
3. The bank. The old newspaper
4. The village factory. Village visitors. Willow-work
5. Hodge's fields
6. A winter's morning
7. The labourer's children. Cottage girls
8. The low 'public'. Idlers
9. The cottage charter. Four-acre farmers
10. Landlords' difficulties. The labourer as a power. Modern clergy
11. A wheat country
12. Grass countries
13. Hodge's last masters. Conclusion.