Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies's After London; Or, Wild England (1885) imagines an undetermined ecological event that devastates London and transforms England, its land, people, and wildlife. In this new critical edition, Michael Kramp and Sarita Jayanty Mizin provide a new scholarly apparatus for engaging the narrative, its contexts, and its legacies.

World's End: A Story in Three Books Book I explores themes of societal structure, personal ambition, and the evolution of a city through the lives of its inhabitants. Central to the story is the development of a city that rises from a barren marsh, initially transformed by the burrowing activities of a water-rat, into a bustling urban center. At the heart of this transformation are characters who represent the tensions between poverty and the pursuit of wealth and status. The opening reveals the origin of the city and introduces key figures, including a miserly farmer and his two sons, who represent the older, established order, and the squatters, such as the basket-makers, who represent new, emergent forces in the community. As the farmer attempts to reclaim land he believes is rightfully his, tensions between the squatters and the established villagers escalate, setting the stage for conflict, moral dilemmas, and potential crime. This backdrop promises a richly layered exploration of social dynamics, class struggles, and the complexities of ownership and power in a rapidly changing society.

World's End: A Story in Three Books Book III explores themes of societal structure, personal ambition, and the evolution of a city through the lives of its inhabitants. Central to the story is the development of a city that rises from a barren marsh, initially transformed by the burrowing activities of a water-rat, into a bustling urban center. At the heart of this transformation are characters who represent the tensions between poverty and the pursuit of wealth and status. The opening reveals the origin of the city and introduces key figures, including a miserly farmer and his two sons, who represent the older, established order, and the squatters, such as the basket-makers, who represent new, emergent forces in the community. As the farmer attempts to reclaim land he believes is rightfully his, tensions between the squatters and the established villagers escalate, setting the stage for conflict, moral dilemmas, and potential crime. This backdrop promises a richly layered exploration of social dynamics, class struggles, and the complexities of ownership and power in a rapidly changing society.

World's End: A Story in Three Books Book II explores themes of societal structure, personal ambition, and the evolution of a city through the lives of its inhabitants. Central to the story is the development of a city that rises from a barren marsh, initially transformed by the burrowing activities of a water-rat, into a bustling urban center. At the heart of this transformation are characters who represent the tensions between poverty and the pursuit of wealth and status. The opening reveals the origin of the city and introduces key figures, including a miserly farmer and his two sons, who represent the older, established order, and the squatters, such as the basket-makers, who represent new, emergent forces in the community. As the farmer attempts to reclaim land he believes is rightfully his, tensions between the squatters and the established villagers escalate, setting the stage for conflict, moral dilemmas, and potential crime. This backdrop promises a richly layered exploration of social dynamics, class struggles, and the complexities of ownership and power in a rapidly changing society.

The Story of My Heart: An Autobiography, is a classical book and has been considered important throughout the human history. So that this book is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this again in a modern format book for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

The Toilers of the Field, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

The Gamekeeper at Home - Sketches of natural history and rural life is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.