The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography [Hardcover]

Richard Jefferies (Author)

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Publication Date: January 28, 2009

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About the Author

Richard Jefferies was born in 1848 and died in 1887. The son of an unsuccessful farmer, he had an impoverished childhood. His early novels were failures, but his love of the countryside, and a spell as a gamekeeper, allowed him to start writing pieces on nature and landscape for the Pall Mall Gazette. These were collected as The Gamekeeper at Home (1878) and Wildlife in a Southern County (1879). Their simplicity and exactness of description of rural life established his reputation, which grew with The Amateur Poacher (1879), Hodge and His Masters and Round About a Great Estate(both 1880). Hodge and His Masters is an important portrait of rural labour just before the great agricultural depression swept away many traditional crafts and settlements from the English countryside. Jefferies' most famous book today is After London (1885), a dystopian novel set in an England whose industrial society has catastrophically collapsed. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 196 pages
• Publisher: BiblioLife (January 28, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1103114344
• ISBN-13: 978-1103114344
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,247,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best, October 2, 2007

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Eric D. Lehman "English Prof" (Bridgeport, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography (Paperback)

I had read Jefferies' nature writing and loved it. But this is one of the best books about an inner life ever written. He makes some leaps that no one else has, and I've read a lot.