Rural conditions
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Rural worlds lost
The transformation of rural England, c. 1550-1800
At hawthorn time
Pichilingue, a study of rural life in coastal Ecuador
The women of Izmaelovka
Grains from grass
The Rural World
Life in a medieval village
City and village in Iran
Ancient futures
UFO in her eyes
The Victorian countryside
Participation in home-economics extension and effectiveness of the program
Land Girls Gang Up
Land, power, and poverty
The sociology of U.S. agriculture
Lord and peasant in nineteenth century Britain
Abolition of poverty in India
Little neighbor stories
Ankle high and knee deep
Country house life
Wake in Fright (Film Ink)
The ballad and the plough
Those who work, those who don't
Poems
Women of the Northern Plains
Peasant dreams & market politics
Cracker barrel days
Later poems
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