After London: Or, Wild England - A Victorian Classic of Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Jefferies Richard

Автор: Dinah Jefferies
Название: The Tea Planter`s Wife
ISBN: 0241969557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241969557
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Presents a haunting, tender portrait of a woman forced to choose between her duty as a wife and her instinct as a mother.

Автор: Jefferies, Dinah
Название: The Silk Merchant`s Daughter
ISBN: 0241248620 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241248621
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Описание: 1952, French Indochina. Since her mother`s death, eighteen-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie. When Sylvie is handed control of the family silk business, Nicole is given an abandoned silk shop in the Vietnamese quarter of Hanoi. But who can she trust?

Автор: Jefferies, Dinah
Название: Before the Rains
ISBN: 0241978831 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241978832
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Описание: A romantic, heart-wrenching tale of love against the odds from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author1930, Rajputana, India. Since her husband's death, 28-year-old photojournalist Eliza's only companion has been her camera. When the British Government send her to an Indian princely state to photograph the royal family, she's determined to make a name for herself.

But when Eliza arrives at the palace she meets Jay, the Prince's handsome, brooding brother. While Eliza awakens Jay to the poverty of his people, he awakens her to the injustices of British rule. Soon Jay and Eliza find they have more in common than they think.

But their families - and society - think otherwise. Eventually they will have to make a choice between doing what's expected, or following their hearts. .

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Автор: Dinah Jefferies
Название: The Separation
ISBN: 0241966051 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241966051
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Описание: A heartbreaking tale of a family fractured by lies and one mother`s love reaching across the distance of years and continents.

Автор: Jefferies Richard
Название: The Scarlet Shawl, a Novel
ISBN: 1530677726 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781530677726
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Автор: Jefferies Richard
Название: Hodge and His Masters
ISBN: 1530740215 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781530740215
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Автор: Jefferies Richard
Название: Amaryllis at the Fair
ISBN: 153099053X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781530990535
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Автор: Jefferies Richard
Название: Wild Life in a Southern County
ISBN: 1481290851 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781481290852
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Автор: Jefferies Richard
Название: Story of My Heart
ISBN: 1548001759 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781548001759
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Описание: The Story of My Heart is a book first published in 1883 by English nature writer, essayist, and journalist Richard Jefferies. The book has been described as a "spiritual autobiography" where Jefferies idealises the English countryside as a sort of utopia. The book and its themes have been compared to the transcendentalist movement. 1] The scholar Roger Ebbatson considers that the book's "speculative" spiritualism is emblematic of the decline of Christian belief in the more empirical Victorian era. 2] Critical reaction to the book was mixed. A new edition of The Story of My Heart published in 2014 notes that the American conservationist Rachel Carson had two copies of the book at her bedside, but others found the work "barely comprehensible." Edward Wilkins Waite RBA (14 April 1854 - 1924) was a prolific English landscape painter. Waite was born in Leatherhead, Surrey, the son of the Rev. Edward Waite, MA, and his wife Cleopha Julia (n e Dukes) - there were six sons and two daughters in total. His grandfather William Watkin Waite was a miniaturist, his father an amateur watercolourist, and three of his brothers - Charles, Harold and Arthur - also became artists. He was educated at the Mansion House Grammar School in Leatherhead. In 1874 he travelled to Ontario, Canada, to work as a lumberjack. On his return he took up painting as a profession, exhibiting often at the Royal Academy, London, from 1878 to 1919. He also exhibited at many other major galleries, in London and the regions, and became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) in 1893. In 1891, Waite married Barbara Isabella Tait (1862-1950). They had one son and two daughters. They lived at Peaslake and Abinger Hammer, in Surrey, before moving to Woolhampton in Berkshire in 1910. They moved back to Surrey and then East Sussex in 1915. Waite died in Fittleworth, Sussex, in 1924. Waite was a landscape painter and worked in oils. Much of his output depicts rural scenes in his native Surrey....... 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 Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. Jefferies's corpus of writings includes 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. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not..."...........