- 1988 edition. 192 pages
- Published by Barrie & Jenkins Ltd, London
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Light blue boards
- Very good condition. Minor shelf wear.
Introduction by Michael Holroyd. Illustrated and Indexed.
The Worm Forgives the Plough is one of the few indisputable masterpieces of rural literature written in this century.
It is a decptively simple account of the author's experiences working on the land during the 1940s, a time when many of the old ways and practices still survived, but were rapidly disappearing before the pressures of technoloby and progress. As Collis himself wrote, "This is about the last book of its kind that can now be written in England."
Collis's descriptions of country people, their life and work are minutely exact, humorous and unsentimental. But Collis imbues his story with paradoxes, with digressions, and with a wider vision, so that the book is ultimately transfigured into poetry.
Life as it was then lived on the land is never glorified, but we are left with the overwhelming sense that its values were truer and its rewards deeper than anything which econmic progress has given us.
Since its publication this book has come to be deeply loved and admired by those who know it, in this magnificent new edition, superbly illustrated with beautiful landscape watercolours and drawings, it will now reach a new and much wider audience.
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