The Worm Forgives the Plough

by John Stewart Collis
Category: "Literature/Essays"
Pages:186
Year of Publication:1946
Date Added:08/24/2020
Date Read:12/08/2025
Notes:During WWII, the college-educated author, a writer and teacher in civilian life, became, by choice, a farm laborer. He wrote a series of essays on farming—the work, the people, the machinery. He considered how farmers and laborers think, what the coming of machinery means, etc. At the time, old by-hand methods were still in use in England but slowly being replaced by machinery.
My Rating: 5

Reviews for The Worm Forgives the Plough

Review - Worm Forgives the Plough, The

Mildly interesting here and there, but the author was pretty high on himself, even when falsely pretending to be modest. He used a lot of farming terms without defining them, which made it hard to follow at times. Of course, I could have looked the terms up, but he never made it interesting enough for me to want to. The book was oddly peppered with random drawings of farm life that had nothing to do with the essays they illustrated.
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