Bevis - the story of a boy, Richard Jefferies, 1904 Duckworth & Co

Description: Bevis - the story of a boy, Richard Jefferies, 1904 Duckworth & Co New Edition . 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Navy cloth with printed decoration to front & spine, titles in gilt. Tiny mark & loss to front cover, loss to back cover, spine is bumped with loss at bottom. Slight loss to corners, edges slightly worn. Endpapers browned with label stuck to front free endpaper. Foxing throughout. Page block edges are foxed. Bevis" is a classic children's novel by English nature writer John Richard Jefferies, first published in 1882. Often called "the British Huckleberry Finn", "Bevis" is a charming tale of childhood adventure and exploration. This novel is a timeless classic, and it would make for ideal bedtime reading. Richard Jefferies (christened John Richard Jefferies) was a Victorian nature writer with a passion for the English countryside and the richness that he saw all around him. His 1879 book Wild LIfe in a Southern County is given as the earliest example in the Oxford English Dictionary of the phrase being used in a nature context. Jefferies was born at the house which is now the museum, in Coate, Swindon, on the 6th November 1848, and died at the tragically early age of 38 on 14th August 1887. Noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels, his childhood at Coate had a great influence on him and provides the background to Bevis and all his major works of fiction. Jefferies's writings include 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. But it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers Bevis combines the adventures of an adventurous free spirited boy with wonderful descriptions of nature: "The leaves with light under them as well as above became films of transparent green, the delicate branches were delineated with finest camel's hair point, all the grass blades heaped together were apart, and their edges apparent in the thick confusion; every atom of sand upon the shore was sought out by the beams, and given an individual existence amid the inconceivable multitude which the sibyl alone counted. Nothing was lost, not a grain of sand, not the least needle of fir. The light touched all things, and gave them to be."

Price: 50 GBP

Location: Brighton

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