The Quest of the Simple Life: Retiring to the Country and Living Simpler, Healthier and Happier; A Classic Guide Dating to the 1900s - Softcover

Dawson, William J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 035901349X ISBN 13: 9780359013494

Verlag: lulu.com, 2018

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William J. Dawson explains his escape from a mundane job and existence, into the countryside where he aims to live a life that is simpler and freer of hassles. Writing in the early 20th century, the author recounts his experience working as an office clerk in the city of London. Bored and unfulfilled by his daily life, he desires to move to the countryside and begin again in a rural setting. Dawson recounts his day to day life, his accounting job which is repetitive and allows for little creative thinking, and finally his loss of the job, which he is determined to make a blessing in disguise. Although the author's quandaries are familiar to the modern reader familiar with the maddening hysteria of working life, William Dawson's frank explanations of the practicalities behind this vision breath life into his story. The process of finding and restoring a home in the country, of resettling his family, and of becoming used to the customs and culture of the pastoral landscape is recounted.

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William J.Dawson Reverend William James Dawson, an English priest, speaker, and author, lived from 1854 until 1928. He was Coningsby Dawson's father. He was educated at Didsbury College in Manchester and Kingswood School in Bath, Somerset, where he was born on November 21, 1854, in Towcester, Northamptonshire. In 1875, he began serving in the Wesleyan church. He had three daughters and three boys after marrying Jane Powell in 1879. In 1887, he relocated to the John Wesley Church on City Road in London. Serving a poor parish in the south of London made him feel incredibly depressed. Coningsby W. Dawson Coningsby Dawson, a Canadian Field Artillery veteran and Anglo-American author, was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, on February 26, 1883, and passed away on August 10, 1959. Dawson enrolled at Merton College in Oxford in 1902, graduating in 1905 with a second-class degree in modern history. He studied theology at Union Seminary for a year before deciding to become a writer. He travelled extensively at this time while working specifically on Canadian topics for English newspapers in America the same year. From 1906 until 1910, he resided in Taunton, Massachusetts, where he worked as the George H. Doran Publishing Company's literary consultant.

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• Verlag: lulu.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 035901349X
• ISBN 13: 9780359013494
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
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