From the back cover:

First published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-Legged House was Wendell Berry's first collection of essays, the inaugural work introducing many of the central issues that have occupied him over the course of his career. Three essays at the heart of this volume -- "The Rise," "The Long-Legged House," and "A Native Hill" -- are essays of homecoming and memoir, as the writer finds his home place, his native ground, his place on earth. As he later wrote, "What I stand for is what I stand on," and here we see him beginning the acts of rediscovery and resettling.

"This book is broad and leisurely and important. Something like the river itself on which Wendell Berry lives. It is full of wide and flowing thoughts and one thing leads to another in the manner that nature intended -- or used to. The language ranges from the grave and beautiful to the sharp and specific, depending on the need to express the vast variety of subjects he presents." Josephine W. Johnson, The Nation

Cover design by David Bullen. 213 pages.

Contents:

I.

The Tyranny of Charity

The Landscaping of Hell: Strip-Mine Morality in East Kentucky
Postscript, July, 1968: A Land Set Aside

The Nature Consumers

II.

The Loss of the Future

A Statement against the War in Vietnam

Some Thoughts on Citizenship and Conscience in Honor of Don Pratt

III.

The Rise

The Long-Legged House

A Native Hill

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