The Hills And The Vale - Jefferies, Richard
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The Hills And The Vale is a collection of essays centered around nature, rural life, and reflections on the English landscape, showcasing a deep appreciation for the countryside. Through vivid descriptions and personal insights, the essays explore the author's connection to the natural world, highlighting his experiences in Wiltshire. The work opens with a reflective and humorous piece on the process of choosing a gun for shooting, blending excitement and anxiety while emphasizing the deeper connection to nature. Each essay captures moments of wandering, with Jefferies' prose offering a…mehr

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The Hills And The Vale is a collection of essays centered around nature, rural life, and reflections on the English landscape, showcasing a deep appreciation for the countryside. Through vivid descriptions and personal insights, the essays explore the author's connection to the natural world, highlighting his experiences in Wiltshire. The work opens with a reflective and humorous piece on the process of choosing a gun for shooting, blending excitement and anxiety while emphasizing the deeper connection to nature. Each essay captures moments of wandering, with Jefferies' prose offering a thoughtful, conversational tone that invites readers into the author's world. The collection presents a nuanced perspective of rural life, capturing the beauty and intricacies of the natural environment. Jefferies' writing celebrates the rhythms of the countryside, revealing the significance of both the mundane and the extraordinary moments encountered in the great outdoors. The essays offer an intimate glimpse into the life of a man deeply connected to his surroundings, making this work an invitation to slow down and appreciate the quiet details of rural existence.
Autorenporträt
John Richard Jefferies was an English nature writer who lived from November 6, 1848, to August 14, 1887. He was famous for writing stories, essays, and books about natural history that showed how people lived in the English countryside. His childhood on a small farm in Wiltshire shaped him a lot and is the setting for all of his big works of fiction. Jefferies wrote a lot of different types of books and about a lot of different subjects. Some of his most famous works are the classic children's book Bevis (1882) and the science fiction novel After London (1885). For most of his adult life, he had tuberculosis. His struggles with the disease and with being poor also show up in his work. Jefferies valued and worked on having strong feelings about the things going on around him. In The Story of My Heart (1883), he goes into more depth about this work. People at the time thought of him as a nature mystic because of this work, which was an introspective look at his thoughts and feelings about the world. But what most people admire about him is how well he writes about nature and people in it, both in his fiction and in collections of essays like The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880).