After London: or, Wild England
Richard Jefferies
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by John Constable, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and John Martin. England after an unnamed catastrophe: London a poisoned swamp, the Thames dammed into an inland sea, and the survivors living in feudal fragments among the ruins. Jefferies published it in 1885, at the very start of post-apocalyptic fiction, and William Morris read it with open delight. This edition adds 58 plates of landscape painting, among them works by John Martin, John Constable and Ernst Gustav Doerell, with subjects from woodland twilight to ruined cities.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by John Constable, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and John Martin. England after an unnamed catastrophe: London a poisoned swamp, the Thames dammed into an inland sea, and the survivors living in feudal fragments among the ruins. Jefferies published i...
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Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) was an English nature writer and novelist born on a Wiltshire farm. He wrote about the countryside with an exactness no one has matched and died at thirty-eight after years of illness and poverty. His works include The Amateur Poacher, Bevis, After London, and The Story of My Heart.
Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) was an English nature writer and novelist born on a Wiltshire farm. He wrote about the countryside with an exactness no one has matched and died at thirty-eight after years of illness and poverty. His works include The Amateur Poacher, Bevis, After London, and The St...
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