Jinny the Carrier

Jinny the Carrier

You and Audrey have so often proclaimed the needin our world of sorrow and careof a bland novel, defining it as one to be read when in bed with a sore throat, that as an adventurer in letters I have frequently felt tempted to write one for you. But the spirit bloweth where it listeth, and seemed perversely to have turned against novels altogether, perhaps because I had been labelled novelist, as though one had set up a factory. (Two a year is, I believe, the correct output.) However, here is a novel at lastmy first this centuryand there is a further reason for presuming to associate you with it, because it is largely from the vantage-point of your Essex homestead that I have, during the past twenty years, absorbed the landscape, character, and dialect which finally insisted on finding expression, first in a little play, and now in this elaborate canvas. How often have I passed over High Field and seen the opulent valleytilth and pasture and ancient country seatsstretching before me like a great poem, with its glint of winding water, and the exquisite blue of its distances, and Bassetts awaiting me below, snuggling under its mellow moss-stained tiles, a true English home of plain living and high thinking, and latterly of the rural Muse! I can only hope that some breath of the inspiration which has emanated from Bassetts in these latter days, and which has set its picturesquely clad poetesses turning rhymes as enthusiastically as clods, and weaving rondels as happily as they bound the sheaves, has been wafted over these more prosaic pagessomething of that wood-magic which your granddaughtersoul of the idyllic bandhas got into her song of your surroundings. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 57836
Author: Zangwill, Israel
Release Date: Sep 2, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English