The World My Wilderness
Rose Macaulay
Hardcover
(LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY, March 24, 1950)
The World My Wilderness is a novel published in 1950 by the English novelist, biographer and traveler Rose Macaulay (1881-1958), the last but one of her novels. Banished by her mother to England, Barbara is thrown into the ordered formality of English life. Confused and unhappy, she discovers the wrecked and flowering wastes around St Paul's, where she finds an echo of the wilderness of Provence and is forced to confront the wilderness within herself.