{"product_id":"2026100011399-secondhand-the-diary-of-a-country-parson","title":"The Diary Of A Country Parson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Slipcase: Good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew documents offer as intimate and unguarded a window into Georgian England as The Diary of a Country Parson, the remarkable journals of the Reverend James Woodforde, a Norfolk clergyman who recorded the rhythms of his daily life with disarming candour from 1758 to 1802. With entries chronicling everything from lavish dinner parties and petty parish squabbles to smuggled gin and the quiet passage of the seasons, Woodforde presents an extraordinarily vivid portrait of rural English life — its pleasures, its customs, and its endearing ordinariness — that no formal history could replicate.\n\nSelected with great care by David Hughes and illustrated with fine engravings by Ian Stephens, this Folio Society edition of 1992 elevates the diary into a beautifully crafted object worthy of its remarkable source. Woodforde's prose is artless in the best possible sense — unpolished, warm, and compulsively readable — and his unselfconscious observations have since established him as one of the great English diarists, a peer of Pepys and Evelyn. For readers who wish to understand what it truly felt like to live in the English countryside two centuries ago, this volume offers not merely history, but the irreplaceable texture of a life genuinely lived.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50573338149083,"sku":"2026100011399-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/55d93778-4754-4f3e-b054-e78815d6b623.png?v=1791167976","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011399-secondhand-the-diary-of-a-country-parson","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}