William Henry Hudson

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A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There, in the 'green mansions' of the title, Abel encounters the wood-nymph Rima, the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. The love that flowers between them is soon overshadowed by cruelty and sorrow... One of the acknowledged masters of natural history writing, W. H. Hudson forms an important link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-century ecological movement.First published in 1904 and a bestseller after its reissue a dozen years later, Green Mansions offers its readers a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to nature, and the bitter reality of the encounter between savage and civilized man.

First published in 1885, The Purple Land was the first novel of William Henry Hudson, author of Green Mansions. The Anglo-Argentine naturalist distinguished himself both as one of the finest craftsmen of prose in English literature and as a thinker on ecological matters far ahead of his time.The Purple Land is the exuberant, often wryly comic, first-person account of a young Englishman's imprudent adventures, set against a background of political strife in nineteenth-century Uruguay. Eloping with an Argentine girl, young Richard Lamb makes an implacable enemy of his teenage bride's father. Leaving her behind, he goes ignorantly forth into the interior of the country to seek his fortune and is eventually imprisoned and persecuted by the vengeful father. His narrative closes as he sets off on still another impetuous quest. This facsimile of the 1904 Three Sirens Press edition includes striking woodcuts by Keith Henderson illustrating the characters in the novel and the fauna of Uruguay. Ilan Stavans's introduction offers an opportunity to revisit The Purple Land as a "road novel" in which an outsider offers reflections on nationality and diasporic identity.The Americas, Stavans, series editor; with a new introduction by Ilan Stavans.Author Biography: W. H. Hudson (1841-1922) was born in Buenos Aires to American parents. He spent his youth in South America before emigrating to England in 1870. His books include the acclaimed novel 'Green Mansions', 'The Naturalist in La Plata', 'Idle Days in Patagonia', 'Adventures among Birds', 'A Crystal Age', 'A Shepherd's Life', 'Far Away and Long Ago', and 'A Hind in Richmond Park.'

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Literary Thoughts edition presents A Crystal Age by W. H. Hudson"A Crystal Age" is a Utopian novel written in 1887 by author, naturalist, and ornithologist William Henry Hudson (1841–1922, writing under his pseudonym W. H. Hudson).All books of the Literary Thoughts edition have been transcribed from original prints and edited for better reading experience.Please visit our homepage www.literarythoughts.com to see our other publications.

First published in 1893, W.H. Hudson's Idle Days in Patagonia is the narrative of his life's great adventure—a year in Patagonia. His time there climaxed 30 years as a naturalist, riding and roving in his native Argentina. His visit to this remote country fulfilled not only a private dream, but also a scientific mission. His collection of bird skins together with a brilliant report to the Zoological Society of London more than a century ago added greatly to his prestige as an ornithologist. In this book, Hudson's scientific interests harmonize perfectly with his extraordinary narrative and descriptive power. Its acute observation of nature and man, and its evocation of remote places and strange peoples mark him as a writer of keenness and distinction.

The Purpose and plan to this little book may easily be gathered from the introductory chapter. Only a few words of preface, therefore, are needed. As i conceive it, a history of English Literature, however brief, should still be a history of English literature in fact as well as in name; and for a history something more is required than a list of author and their books, and even than a chronologically-arranged collection of biographical sketches and critical appreciations. It is true that a nation's literature is made up of the works of individual Writers, and that for the ordinary purposes of study these writers may be detached from their surroundings and treated separately. But we cannot get a history of such literature unless and until each one has been put into his place in the sequence of things and considered with reference to that great body of literature production of which his work must now be regarded as a part. A history of English literature, then must be interested primarily in English literature as a whole. Its chief aim should be to give a clear and systematic account, not of the achievements of successive great writers merely, as such, but of national changes and development. This does not imply neglect of the personal factor. On the contrary, it brings the personal factor into relief; for if each writer is to be considered with reference to literature as a whole, one main subject of enquiry must be the nature and value of his particular contribution to that whole. But it does mean vi that, together with the personal factor, the great general movement of literature from age to age has to be investigated, and that every writer has to be interpreted in his connection with this general movement. To exhibit the interplay of the personal and the impersonal in the making of history is, indeed, one of the fundamentals of the historian's task; and since history, properly understood, is as much concerned with the explanation of facts as with the facts themselves, it follows that a history of English literature must also include some record of the forces which, period by period, have combined in the transformation of literary standards and tastes.

William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. He was born in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he is considered to belong to the national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. He settled in England during 1869. He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology (1888-1899) and British Birds (1895), and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including Hampshire Days (1903), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910). His best known novel is Green Mansions (1904), and his best known non-fiction is Far Away and Long Ago (1918). His other works include: The Purple Land (That England Lost) (1885), A Crystal Age (1887), The Naturalist in La Plata (1892), A Little Boy Lost (1905), Birds in Town and Village (1919), Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn (1920), and A Traveller in Little Things (1921).

In this comprehensive survey, William Hudson explores the forces responsible for bringing about the Renaissance, which he describes as the West's "transition from the medieval to the modern world." Voyages of discovery, inventions, the revival of classical learning, and the advent of science contribute to the intellectual upheavals of this creative period, which are reflected in its literature and art. Hudson focuses on the one thread of continuity which he sees as both the seed and the fruit of this exciting the awakening of secular humanism and the emergence of the individual. This history gives the listener a lucid, perceptive analysis of the splendid Renaissance.

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Publisher: Duckworth Publication date: 1902 Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.

Author of such masterfully constructed novels as "A Crystal Age" and "Green"" Mansions," Hudson stepped away from nature writing in 1910 to pen this unique volume. Included are the essays, "Some Ways of Studying Literature," "The Study of Poetry," "The Study of Prose Fiction," "The Study of Drama," "On Personality in Literature," and "The Study of the Short Story," among others.

This ebook edition has been proofed, corrected and compiled to be read with without errors!***An excerpt from the beginningCHAPTER IAutumn in the New Forest—Red colour in mammals—November mildness—A house by the Boldre—An ideal spot for small birds—Abundance of nests—Small mammals and the weasel’s part—Voles and mice—Hornet and bank-vole—Young shrews—A squirrel’s visit—Green woodpecker’s drumming-tree—Drumming of other species—Beauty of great spotted woodpecker—The cuckoo controversy—A cuckoo in a robin’s nest—Behaviour of the cuckoo—Extreme irritability—Manner of ejecting eggs and birds from the nest—Loss of irritability—Insensibility of the parent robins—Discourse on mistaken kindness, pain and death in nature, the annual destruction of bird life, and the young cuckoo’s instinct.HERE, by chance, in the early days of December 1902, at the very spot where my book begins, I am about to bring it to an end.A few days ago, coming hither from the higher country at Silchester, where the trees were already nearly bare, I was surprised to find the oak woods of this lower southern part of the New Forest still in their full autumnal foliage. Even now, so late in the year, after many successive days and nights of rain and wind, they are in leaf everywhere the woods are yellow, here where the oak predominates; the stronger golden red and russet tints of the beech are vanished. We have rain and wind on most days, or rather mist and rain by day and wind with storms of rain by night; days, too, or parts of days, when it is very dark and still, and when there is a universal greyness in earth and sky. At such times, seen against the distant slaty darkness or in the blue-grey misty atmosphere, the yellow woods look almost more beautiful than in fine weather.The wet woodland roads and paths are everywhere strewn, and in places buried deep in fallen leaves—yellow, red, and russet; and this colour is continued under the trees all through the woods, where the dead bracken has now taken that deep tint which it will keep so long as there is rain or mist to wet it for the next four or five months. Dead bracken with dead leaves on a reddish soil; and where the woods are fir, the ground is carpeted with lately-fallen needles of a chestnut red, which brightens almost to orange in the rain. Now, at this season, in this universal redness of the earth where trees and bracken grow, we see that Nature is justified in having given that colour—red and reddish-yellow—to all or to most of her woodland mammals. Fox and foumart and weasel and stoat; the hare too; the bright squirrel; the dormouse and harvest-mouse; the bank-vole and the wood-mouse. Even the common shrew and lesser shrew, though they rarely come out by day, have a reddish tinge on their fur. Water-shrew and water-vole inhabit the banks of streams, and are safer without such a colour; the dark grey badger is strictly a night rover.Sometimes about noon the clouds grow thin in that part of the sky, low down, where the sun is, and a pale gleam of sunlight filters through; even a patch of lucid blue sky sometimes becomes visible for a but the light soon fades; after mid-day the dimness increases, and before long one begins to think that evening has come. Withal it is singularly mild. One could almost imagine in this season of mist and wet and soft airs in late November that this is a land where days grew short and dark indeed, but where winter comes not, and the sensation of cold is unknown. It is pleasant to be out of doors in such weather, to stand in the coloured woods listening to that autumn sound of tits and other little birds wandering through the high trees in straggling parties, talking and calling to one another in their small sharp voices. Or to walk by the Boldre, or, as some call it, the Lymington, a slow, tame stream in summer, invisible till you are close to it; but now, in flood, the trees that grow on its banks and hid it in summer are seen standing deep in a broad, rushing, noisy river.The woodpecker’s laugh has the same careless happy sound as in it is scarcely light in the morning before the small wren pours out his sharp bright lyric outside my window; it is time, he tells me, to light my candle and get up. The starlings are about the house all day long, vocal even in the rain, carrying on their perpetual starling conversation—talk and song and recitative; a sort of bird-Yiddish, with fluty fragments of melody stolen from the blackbird, and whistle and click and the music of the triangle thrown in to give variety. So mild is it that in the blackness of night I sometimes wander into the forest paths and by furzy heaths and...

William Henry Hudson was a founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Though born in Argentina, Hudson came to England in 1874, where he remained until his death in 1922. Absorbed by nature, and in particular by the lives and activities of birds, his acute observations on wildlife led to some charming books which helped establish the pastime of bird watching. Birds in Town and Village is one of his classics. It is a truly engaging rumination on birds, as he watched them go about their daily lives. It is unfailingly charming, and read with an easy, relaxed tone by Neville Jason.

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The power of the sun and its joy is not felt so early on the downs as on the lower country, and last season it was not until the middle of June that I experienced the blissful sensation and feeling in its fullness. Then a day came that was a revelation; I all at once had a deeper sense and more intimate knowledge of what summer really is to all the children of life; for it chanced that on that effulgent day even the human animal, usually regarded as outside of nature, was there to participate in the heavenly bounty.

Celebrated nature classic offers unusual perspective on treeless grasslands of Argentina. Detailed, accurate observations of desert pampas, wildlife, animal defense mechanisms, more.

12 Complete Works of W. H. HudsonA Crystal AgeA Little Boy LostA Shepherd's LifeA Traveller in Little ThingsAfoot in EnglandBirds of Town and VillageDead Man's Plack and an Old ThornFanFar Away and Long AgoGreen MansionsThe Naturalist in La PlataThe Purple Land

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""The Famous Missions of California"" is a historical book written by W. H. Hudson that provides a detailed account of the Spanish missions established in California during the 18th and 19th centuries. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the history, architecture, and cultural significance of these missions, which played a crucial role in the colonization and development of California. Hudson's writing is informative and engaging, and he provides a wealth of information about the daily life of the missionaries and the indigenous people who lived and worked in and around the missions. The book is illustrated with numerous photographs, drawings, and maps that help to bring the history of these fascinating structures to life. Overall, ""The Famous Missions of California"" is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history and culture of California, and it remains a popular reference for scholars, historians, and enthusiasts alike.The missions which thus represented a slight and temporary revival of the old spirit of enterprise, were those of San Rafael Arc�����ngel and San Francisco Solano. The former, located near Mount Tamalpais, between San Francisco de Assis and the Russian military station at Fort Ross, dates from the 17th December, 1817; the latter, situated still further north, in the Sonoma Valley, from the 4th July, 1823. Some little uncertainty exists as to the true reasons and purposes of their foundation.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. His best known novel is "Green Mansions" (1904), and his best known non-fiction is "Far Away and Long Ago" (1918).

Ralph Herne es uno de los primeros cuentos de Hudson, publicado en inglés por la revista Youth en forma de folletín, desde el 4 de enero al 14 de marzo de 1888. No hay traducción al español y sólo existe en el idioma original, en los 24 tomos de sus obras completas que editó Dent en 1923. Esta obra, de gran interés, describe la epidemia de fiebre amarilla que hubo en Buenos Aires en 1871, donde Ralph Herne, joven médico inglés, trabaja arduamente y desafía a este flagelo. Están los cajones que se vendían de puerta en puerta, los que navegaban por las calles convertidas en ríos en la noche de tormenta; la desesperación de la gente que moría en número impresionante y en muy breve plazo; hasta la tristeza de la ciudad vacía donde crecía el pasto en las calles.Este cuento fue traducido por Alicia Jurado, autora de la biografía más documentada de Hudson y se podrá conocer así una de sus ficciones menos difundidas, sobre la fiebre amarilla en Buenos Aires en el siglo XIX.

Marta Riquelme. Guillermo Enrique Hudson. Argentina 1841 - 1922

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Hudson nació en la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, en 1841, hijo de padres norteamericanos y nieto de ingleses del condado de Devon. Allí fue naturalista, sobre todo ornitologo, pero dejó el país a los treinta y tres años de edad para establecerse en Inglaterra, donde vivió hasta su muerte en 1922, probablemente con la esperanza de trabajar en ciencia, pues estaba vinculado con la Royal Zoological Society y en su país natal no tenía posibilidades.Es autor de numerosos libros, algunos de narrativa (como el cuento que llamó ‘El Ombú’) y en su mayor parte de ensayos sobre naturaleza. ‘Allá lejos y hace tiempo’ cuenta sus experiencias primeras en la Argentina en plena época de Rosas; ‘Días de ocio en Patagonia’, las de su viaje juvenil a esa zona; ‘Aves del Plata’, es lo que el título indica y publicó muchos sobre pájaros ingleses: ‘Birds in London’, ‘Birds and man’, ‘Adventures among birds’, ‘British birds’, son ejemplos. ‘La tierra purpurea’ es una novela que sucede en Uruguay; ‘Mansiones verdes’, otra, más fantasiosa, en la Guayana Inglesa. También novela es ‘Una edad de cristal’ que se podría considerar ciencia ficción.Fue muy valorado en Londres por los escritores contemporáneos; era amigo de Conrad, Cunninghame Graham, Galsworthy, Wells, Henry James. Conrad dijo de Hudson ‘escribia como crece el pasto’, aludiendo a la facilidad y sencillez de su prosa.Ningún autor lo superó en el ensayo sobre la naturaleza en su país donde ese genero abunda durante siglos, resultado de recorrer los pueblos del sur de Inglaterra en su primer periodo en Londres, que fue de gran pobreza. Mas etólogo y observador de aves que científico, supo describir los hábitos de estas, en los dos paises en que vivio, con suprema exactitud y admirable elegancia.

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I. SOME WAYS OF STUDYING LITERATURE II. SOME WAYS OF STUDYING LITERATURE (concluded) III. THE STUDY OF POETRY IV. THE STUDY OF PROSE FICTION V. THE STUDY OF THE DRAMA VI. THE STUDY OF CRITICISM AND THE VALUATION OF LITERATURE APPENDIX I. ON PERSONALITY IN LITERATURE II. ON THE TREATMENT OF NATURE IN POETRY III. THE STUDY OF THE ESSAY IV. THE STUDY OF THE SHORT STORY INDEX

El naturalista W.H. Hudson es una de las voces más destacadas de la narrativa de naturaleza que jamás hayan existido. Las aves y el hombre, una de sus obras más relevantes y que hasta ahora se encontraba inédita en español, nos devela los albores de la divulgación científica del siglo XX, expuesta en clave narrativa cautivará a todos los amantes de los pájaros.William Henry Hudson (1841 – 1922)Conocido también como Guillermo Enrique Hudson fue un naturalista y escritor nacido en Quilmes, Argentina, país del que luego emigró para asentarse en Inglaterra. Su trayectoría está marcada por su pasión por la naturaleza y el amor que sentía por los animales, en especial por los pájaros. Esto fue la principal motivación para comenzar a escribir y publicar sus obras, convirtiéndose en uno de los escritores más icónicos de la lengua inglesa. Entre sus publicaciones destaca La tierra purpúrea (1885), El Ombú (1902) y Mansiones verdes (1904), entre otras.“En Hudson la curiosidad es una pasión o, mejor dicho, forma parte de una pasión mayor que es el amor. Él ama las cosas como son. Es decir, ama la vida en su totalidad”. Edward Thomas«Mejorando una frase que James Boswell ha divulgado, Hudson refiere que muchas veces en la vida emprendió el estudio de la metafísica, pero que siempre lo interrumpió la felicidad”. Jorge Luis Borges“Sus libros son un almacén de hechos y observaciones de gran valor para el naturalista, mientras que para el lector común resultan ser los más interesantes y deliciosos libros modernos de historia natural”. Russel WallaceTraducción de Diego Alfaro Palma y Fernando Correa-Navarro. Ediciones Libro Verde.