Our Village
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
Few works of English literature capture the quiet rhythms of rural life with such warmth and precision as Our Village, Mary Russell Mitford's celebrated collection of sketches drawn from her years spent in the small Berkshire hamlet of Three Mile Cross. First published in five volumes between 1824 and 1832, the work chronicles the characters, landscapes, and seasonal rituals of English village life through a series of gently observational vignettes — by turns tender, comic, and luminously descriptive. Mitford renders her neighbours, her beloved greyhound Mayflower, and the hedgerows and meadows surrounding her cottage with the eye of a painter and the ear of a poet, creating a portrait of early nineteenth-century England that is at once intimately personal and universally resonant. Our Village occupies a singular place in the canon of Romantic-era prose, sitting at a fascinating crossroads between the essay tradition of Addison and Steele and the emerging novel of manners championed by Mitford's contemporary, Jane Austen. Her style is deceptively light — conversational, unhurried, and richly detailed — yet beneath the pastoral surface lies a sharp social intelligence and a quietly radical celebration of the ordinary. The Folio Society edition presents this enduring classic with the elegance it deserves, inviting a new generation of readers to discover why Mitford's village, though long vanished, feels as vivid and alive as ever.
Author: Mary Russell Mitford
Format: Hardback
Published: 1994, The Folio Society
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
Few works of English literature capture the quiet rhythms of rural life with such warmth and precision as Our Village, Mary Russell Mitford's celebrated collection of sketches drawn from her years spent in the small Berkshire hamlet of Three Mile Cross. First published in five volumes between 1824 and 1832, the work chronicles the characters, landscapes, and seasonal rituals of English village life through a series of gently observational vignettes — by turns tender, comic, and luminously descriptive. Mitford renders her neighbours, her beloved greyhound Mayflower, and the hedgerows and meadows surrounding her cottage with the eye of a painter and the ear of a poet, creating a portrait of early nineteenth-century England that is at once intimately personal and universally resonant. Our Village occupies a singular place in the canon of Romantic-era prose, sitting at a fascinating crossroads between the essay tradition of Addison and Steele and the emerging novel of manners championed by Mitford's contemporary, Jane Austen. Her style is deceptively light — conversational, unhurried, and richly detailed — yet beneath the pastoral surface lies a sharp social intelligence and a quietly radical celebration of the ordinary. The Folio Society edition presents this enduring classic with the elegance it deserves, inviting a new generation of readers to discover why Mitford's village, though long vanished, feels as vivid and alive as ever.