Landscape with Figures
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The Toilers of the Field, London: Longmans, 1892.
The Early Fiction of Richard Jefferies, edited by Grace Toplis, London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1896.
Jefferies’ Land: A History of Swindon and Its Environs, edited by Grace Toplis, London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1896.
T. T. T., Wells: A. Young, 1896 (short story).
The Hills and the Vale, with an introduction by Edward Thomas, London: Duckworth, 1909.
The Old House at Coate, and Other Hitherto Unprinted Essays, edited by Samuel J. Looker, London: Lutterworth Press, 1948.
The Nature Diaries and Note-Books of Richard Jefferies, edited by Samuel J. Looker, London: Grey Walls Press, 1948.
Chronicles of the Hedges, and Other Essays, edited by Samuel J. Looker, London: Phoenix House, 1948.
Field and Farm: Essays Now First Collected, with some from MSS, edited by Samuel J. Looker, London: Phoenix House, 1957.
Landscape and Labour, edited by John Pearson, Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press, 1979.
A complete list of Jefferies’ essays and journalism appears in the Bibliography of Landscape and Labour (see above).
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This selection, originally entitled Landscape with Figures: An Anthology of Richard Jefferies’s Prose, first published in Penguin English Library 1983
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* The Country and the City, Chatto & Windus, 1973.
* Quoted in Richard Jefferies: Man of the Fields, ed. S. J. Looker and C. Porteous, 1965.
* Collected by Grace Toplis as The Early Fiction of Richard Jefferies, 1890.
* Introduction to Amaryllis at the Fair, Dent, 1939.
* Richard Jefferies, 1909; Faber edition 1978.
* There is a blank in the manuscript here.
* The Arabian commentator thinks this story a myth: the oasis in the desert is the time of youth, which passes so quickly, and is not recognized till it is gone; the pearls and rubies, the joys of love, which make the fortunate lover as a king. In old age every man is afflicted with disease or infirmity, every one is paralytic, lame, or blind. They set out to find a second youth – the dream of immortality – with the astrolabe, which is the creed or Koran all take as their guide. And death separated the company. This is only his pragmatic way; the circumstance is doubtless historic.