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Richard Jefferies

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born

November 06, 1848 in Wiltshire, The United Kingdom

died

August 14, 1887

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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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 north Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, 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 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...more

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Average rating: 3.34 · 143 ratings · 29 reviews · 67 distinct works

	After London: or, Wild England 3.05 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1885 — 38 editions	My rating:
	Bevis 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1937 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1883 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Wood Magic 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1899 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Gamekeeper At Home; The Amateur Poacher 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Walks In The Wheat Fields. Richard Jefferies 2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The Pageant of Summer 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1896 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Nature Near London 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Wild Life in a Southern County 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1879 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Round About A Great Estate by Richard Jefferies, Graham Arnold (Illustrator), John Fowles (Introduction) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:

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“Let us get of these indoor narrow modern days, whose twelve hours somehow have become shortened, into the sunlight and the pure wind. A something that the ancients thought divine can be found and felt there still.”
― Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher - Poachers and Poaching

tags: environmentalism

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“It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.”
― Richard Jefferies, The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography

tags: eternity , life

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“The great sea makes one a great sceptic.”
― Richard Jefferies

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