The complete online text of Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies.

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 with successors such as Edward Thomas or Henry Willia...

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 nineteenth-century rural life, including the adventur...

very Saturday afternoon, in living rooms all around the country, whole families would sit transfixed by the feats of a man sporting a pencil thin moustache, lurid satin suit, scarlet nail polish and crimping tongs. In the Fifties the TV show Quite Contrary...

AFTER BEING publicly labelled a cheat by Dominic Cork and having struggled for championship runs all season, Brad Hodge was a man who needed to prove a point and his sublime century yesterday offered the perfect riposte to his critics. Hodge stroked 128...