Part I
The Relapse into Barbarism
CHAPTER I
THE GREAT FOREST
The old men say their fathers told them that soon
after the fields were left to themselves a change
began to be visible. It became gr...
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The name of Richard Jefferies is one invoked most often by association, whether with predecessors such as William Cobbett or Gilbert White, with contemporaries such as Thomas Hardy or W. H. Hudson, or...
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Richard Jefferies defies easy literary categorization. Labels such as essayist, journalist, novelist, rural observer, naturalist, and mystic have all been applied to this British writer who chronicled...
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Unexploded car bombs in London led to extra patrols in the United States on Friday, but Bush administration officials said they saw no special terrorist threat heading toward the Fourth of July hol...
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Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, who is seeking a third term in the
April 8 gubernatorial election, defended his pledge Friday to pave
the way for Tokyo to bid for the summer Olympics in 2016, d...
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Moscow/Berlin (dpa) - Russia wants normal relations with Britain,
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday as Moscow sought to
defuse tensions with London over the murder ...
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TOP STORIES ----------- WASHINGTON - U.S. President George W. Bush insisted on
Tuesday that Iran remains dangerous and urged continued
international pressure despite a new intelligence report that...
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WASHINGTON - U.S. President George W. Bush insisted that
Iran remains dangerous and urged continued international
pressure despite a new intelligence report that Tehran halted
its nuclear arms pro...
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In the summer fiction issue of The New Yorker (June 11 and 18, $4.95), D.T. Max profiles Tom Staley, the director of a vast and growing literary archive at the University of Texas at Austin. Offer...
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An independent panel on Tuesday was to release a much-anticipated report on safety and management at oil company BP PLC's U.S. operations, which was sparked by a deadly blast at a Texas refinery ne...
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After London
(John) Richard Jefferies
US urges vigilance after London incident
