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The Heart of England

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By Edward Thomas
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A series of lyrical prose sketches follows the narrator's walks from suburban streets into lowland meadows, upland woods, moors and seacoast, recording seasonal changes, rural scenes, village life, farming details, and small human encounters. Each chapter captures sensory impressions of light, weather, birds and plants, and reflects on memory, solitude and the changing landscape. The work is arranged in parts that move geographically and seasonally, and it closes with several folk songs and short verses. Tone alternates between quiet observation and reflective meditation, favoring detailed description over plot.

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Title: The Heart of England

Author: Edward Thomas

Illustrator: Herbert Cole

Release date: July 29, 2018 [eBook #57599]

Language: English

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THE HEART OF ENGLAND

THE HEART OF ENGLAND SERIES

This Series opens with a new work by Mr. Edward Thomas, that curious and enthusiastic explorer of the English Countryside, whose prose style gives him a claim to be regarded as the successor, as he is the biographer, of Richard Jefferies. The Series includes a new edition of Mr. Thomas’s other work, “The Heart of England,” and Mr. Hilaire Belloc’s “The Historic Thames.” These two volumes were originally issued in limited editions at one Guinea net per volume.

THE SOUTH COUNTRY. By Edward Thomas. Small crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

Mr. Thomas in this new book gives his impressions of a year’s wanderings afoot as the seasons change through Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Cornwall. It is a prose-poem of the most beautiful counties in England.

THE HEART OF ENGLAND. By Edward Thomas. Small crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

THE HISTORIC THAMES. By Hilaire Belloc, M.P. 3s. 6d. net.

Prospectus of above Books sent post free on application.

J. M. DENT & CO.
29-30, BEDFORD STREET, LONDON, W.C.

THE HEART OF
ENGLAND

by Edward Thomas

LONDON
J. M. DENT & CO.
1909

All rights reserved

TO
HENRY W. NEVINSON