Gone to Earth (Annotated)

Set amid the woods, fields, and superstition-haunted villages of Shropshire, Gone to Earth is a lyrical rural tragedy centered on Hazel Woodus, a wild, instinctive young woman caught between the predatory squire Jack Reddin and the idealistic minister Edward Marston. Webb's prose fuses sensuous nature writing, local dialect, biblical cadence, and melodramatic intensity, placing the novel in conver...