📚 Country Life

Books with country life on their catalogue record, first published between 1502 and 2011, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 21 works carrying the subject country life in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 10,690 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Opera	Publius Vergilius Maro	1502	182
	A Shropshire lad	A. E. Housman	1896	74
	The Amateur Poacher	Richard Jefferies	1879	70
	Hodge and His Masters	Richard Jefferies	1879	58
	Ring of bright water	Gavin Maxwell	1960	48
	The egg and I	Betty MacDonald	1945	45
	Out of Africa	Isak Dinesen	1937	34
	The flame trees of Thika	Elspeth Huxley	1959	33
	Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady	Edith Holden	1977	18
	Living the good life	Helen Nearing	1954	11
	Donkey Work	Doreen Tovey	1962	10
	The encyclopedia of country living	Carla Emery	1975	8
	Driving Over Lemons	Chris Stewart	1999	8
	Stillmeadow Daybook	Gladys Taber	1955	5
	Icons of England	Bill Bryson	2010	4
	Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge	Gladys Bagg Taber	1953	1
	Stillmeadow sampler	Gladys Bagg Taber	1959	1
	Foxfire 3	Eliot Wigginton	1975	1
	Back to the land ... for self-preservation	Norman Wardhaugh Walker	1977	1
	Farm anatomy	Julia Rothman	2011	1
	Reveries at Stillmeadow; a woman's precious moments from the Stillmeadow books of Gladys Taber	Gladys Bagg Taber	1970	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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