 | A Place In My Country: In Search Of A Rural Dream by Ian Walthew
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £0.01 A contemporary classic
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 | Cider with Rosie (Vintage classics) by Laurie Lee
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.97 Another classic, another book set in the Cotswolds
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 | Lark Rise to Candleford: "Lark Rise"; "Over to Candleford"; "Candleford Green": A Trilogy by Flora Thompson
Buy new: £6.16 / Used from: £0.01 Rural English fiction at its best
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 | Change in the Village (Social history) by George Sturt
Buy new: £15.00 / Used from: £4.15 A Place in My Country c. 1900
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| The Notorious Poacher: Memoirs of an old poacher (Field sports library) by G. Bedson ("Grandad")
Buy used from: £2.24 First published in 1981
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 | Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.92 A bit journalistic but a classic
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 | Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick by Jenny Uglow
Buy new: £7.30 / Used from: £1.09 A brilliant biography of the father of English rural woodcuts
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 | Selected Poems by Laurie Lee
Buy used from: £9.00 If you own one selection of English rural poetry, this is it.
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| The year of the pigeons by John Moore
Buy used from: £3.50 Long out of print, I can't think why.
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 | The Death of Rural England: A Social History of the Countryside Since 1900 by Alun Howkins
Buy new: £17.51 / Used from: £11.99 Masterful.
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 | The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul
Buy new: £5.65 / Used from: £1.88 A Place in Someone Else's Country.
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 | Paradise Lost: Rural Idyll and Social Change Since 1800 (International Library of Historical Studies) by Jeremy Burchardt
Buy new: £37.80 / Used from: £34.99 Explains the modern rural dream
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 | Rural Englands: Labouring Lives in the Nineteenth Century by Barry Reay
Buy new: £15.67 / Used from: £8.62 Gets inside the stereotypes of rural England
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![Went The Day Well? [DVD] [1942]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TN9VWS7XL._SL75_.jpg) | Went The Day Well? [DVD] [1942]
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £7.00 Quintissential English rural film fiction
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 | The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £2.43 What to say?
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 | Beowulf: A New Translation
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.95 The greatest early English poem.
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 | Middlemarch (Wordsworth Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Magnificent
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 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Dorset? The most beautiful country after Gloucestershire
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Provincial middle-class life
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 The dark Hall
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 | The Return of the Native (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £5.22 / Used from: £0.55 The pastoral village of Egdon Heath
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 | Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 "When Farmer Oak smiled,
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![Pride & Prejudice - 2005 [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M8NQVSVTL._SL75_.jpg) | Pride & Prejudice - 2005 [DVD]
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.50 As re-watchable as the book is re-readable
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| The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius by George Orwell
Buy used from: £7.99 Not strictly in this list, but essential to understanding rural England
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