Penguin C9 from the Illustrated Classics series which was designed to showcase the art of wood-engraving. 1st Edition, published 1938.
The Story of My Heart, is one of the stranger autobiographies in the English language. It describes almost nothing about the writer’s life, education, family or work. Opening with a mystical experience on a green hill in the south of England seventeen years before – the date is exact, in a book that is otherwise so exalted above mere facts – it is the record of the author’s striving for ‘soul-life’, for communion with the beauty of nature.
In impassioned prose, with echoes of Blake and Shelley, Jefferies relates the history of his feeling of identification with the sun, wind, space and the pulse of natural life. The book is a prayer to the physical world, a pantheistic rejection of modern urban life and technique: ‘the sun was stronger than science; the hills more than philosophy’. A neglected classic of English nature writing, The Story of My Heart speaks to today’s ecological concerns in the language of another era.
Condition grading: Good. Light creases and light foxing to front cover. Light crease to bottom of rear. Creases to all corners of interior pages as shown. Some bumping to spine ends. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin C9 from the Illustrated Classics series which was designed to showcase the art of wood-engraving. 1st Edition, published 1938.
The Story of My Heart, is one of the stranger autobiographies in the English language. It describes almost nothing about the writer’s life, education, family or work. Opening with a mystical experience on a green hill in the south of England seventeen years before – the date is exact, in a book that is otherwise so exalted above mere facts – it is the record of the author’s striving for ‘soul-life’, for communion with the beauty of nature.
In impassioned prose, with echoes of Blake and Shelley, Jefferies relates the history of his feeling of identification with the sun, wind, space and the pulse of natural life. The book is a prayer to the physical world, a pantheistic rejection of modern urban life and technique: ‘the sun was stronger than science; the hills more than philosophy’. A neglected classic of English nature writing, The Story of My Heart speaks to today’s ecological concerns in the language of another era.
Condition grading: Good. Light creases and light foxing to front cover. Light crease to bottom of rear. Creases to all corners of interior pages as shown. Some bumping to spine ends. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
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