The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Author(s): Wendell Berry

Essays & Letters

"Mr. Berry's sentences and stories deliver a great payload of edifying entertainment, which I hungrily consume, but it is the bass note of morality thumping through his musical phrases that guides me with the most constant of hands upon my plow." âe*Nick Offerman,New York Times bestselling author ofPaddle Your Own Canoe


"Read [Berry] with pencil in hand, make notes, and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here." âe*The New York Times


"He is unlike anybody else writing today." âe*New Statesman


In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities


The writings gathered inThe World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work. These are essays written in defiance of the false call to progress and in defense of local landscapes, essays that celebrate our cultural heritage, our history, and our home.


With grace and conviction, Wendell Berry shows that we simply cannot afford to succumb to the mass-produced madness that drives our global economy--the natural world will not survive it.


Yet he also shares with us a vision of consolation and of hope. We may be locked in an uneven struggle, but we can and must begin to treat our land, our neighbors, and ourselves with respect and care. As Berry urges, we must abandon arrogance and stand in awe.

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'Wendell Berry is the most important writer and thinker that you have (probably) never heard of. He is an American sage' – James Rebanks

'A farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts,' Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, and also the T. S. Eliot Award, the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement, and the National Humanities Medal. For more than forty years, he has lived and farmed in his native Henry Country, KY, with his wife, Tanya, and their children and grandchildren. Paul Kingsnorth is a novelist, thinker and co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. His books include One No, Many Yeses, The Wake, and, most recently, Beast. He lives in the west of Ireland.

General Fields

  • : 9780241279205
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Allen Lane
  • : 0.61
  • : February 2017
  • : 240mm X 162mm X 33mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Wendell Berry
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 630.973
  • : 368