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The Blue Field | Part I: Landscape with Figures

The Blue Field | Part I: Landscape with Figures

We’ll begin at the top of Brensham Hill, because from there you will get a good idea of the kind of country in which our village is set. This is the land which has made and moulded us. Look north, south, east and west, and you shall see as it were the four cornerstones of our character: the ancient foundations of our way of thinking and living, our wisdom, folly, manners, customs, humours, what you will.

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‘Reading some of these letters, you have to pinch yourself . . .’ | The Oxford Book of Letters | From the Slightly Foxed archives

‘Reading some of these letters, you have to pinch yourself . . .’ | The Oxford Book of Letters | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Greetings from Slightly Foxed. We’re sorry if it’s taken a little longer than usual for us to reply to you of late, dear readers, but we have been inundated with charming, cheering and heartfelt missives of congratulation for Editors Gail and…

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Erich Kästner | Suitcases, Corsets and Curls | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Erich Kästner | Suitcases, Corsets and Curls | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Greetings from Slightly Foxed. We do hope you’re all enjoying roaming far and wide across the literary landscape of Slightly Foxed Issue No. 78 from L. P. Hartley’s Suffolk to News South Wales with Fiona Macfarlane via the French Riviera (and a number of other European…

When I Was a Little Boy | Chapter 4: Suitcases, Corsets and Curls

When I Was a Little Boy | Chapter 4: Suitcases, Corsets and Curls

Dresden was a wonderful city, full of art and history, yet with none of the atmosphere of a museum which happened to house, along with its treasures, six hundred and fifty thousand Dresdeners. Past and present lived in perfect unity, or rather duality, and blended and harmonized with the landscape – the Elbe, the bridges, the slopes of the surrounding hills, the woods, the mountains which fringed the horizon – to form a perfect trinity. From Meissen Cathedral to the Castle Park of Groszsedlitz, history, art and nature intermingled in town and valley in an incomparable accord which seemed as though bewitched by its own perfect harmony.

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