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Tusser Redivivus
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A Literary Christmas
This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new--from John Donne's Elizabethan hymn over the baby Jesus to Benjamin Zephaniah's "Talking Turkeys," from Thomas Tusser counting the cost of a Tudor feast to P. G. Wodehouse's wry story about Christmas on a diet. Enjoy a Christmas Day as described by Samuel Pepys, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, or Nancy Mitford. Venture out into the snow in the company of Jane Austen, Henry James, and Dickens's Mr. Pickwick. Entertain the children with the seasonal tales of Dylan Thomas, Kenneth Grahame, and Oscar Wilde.
Brave Old World
A meditation on why life has been a dreadful mistake ever since the Reformation brought us paid jobs and the work ethic.
Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie
Thomas Tusser, the Author of the "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry," was born at Rivenhall/ near Kelvedon and Witham, in the County of Essex, about the year 1525. The exact date of his birth is uncertain, Warton- placing it in 1523, and Dr. Mavor in 1515, in which he is supported by the inscription on the mural tablet erected to the memory of Tusser in the church of Manningtree, where he is stated to have been sixty-five years of age at the time of his death, which took place in 1580.
