The World-Ending Fire

The Essential Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry is 'something of an anachronism'. He began his life as the old times and the last of the old-time people were dying out, and continues to this day in the old ways: a team of draft horses and a pencil are his chosen working tools. This book is the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky, and the rich, intimate knowledge of the place and its history cultivated by this work.

In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the reckless waste and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out to defend the land we live on, imploring readers to return to the local landscapes that provide our cultural heritage, our history, our home.

Compelling, luminous ... our modern-day Thoreau. He is unlike anybody else writing today. He writes at least as well as George Orwell and has an urgent message for modern industrial capitalism ... nobody can risk ignoring him

Andrew Marr, New Statesman

About Wendell Berry

'A farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts,' Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, and also the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement, and the National Humanities Medal. For more than forty years, he has lived and farmed in his native Henry Country, Kentucky, with his wife, Tanya, and their children and grandchildren.
Details
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241279212
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Price: £3.49
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