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Winter approaches which means there are days ahead to sit in a sunny window seat and take in an adventure or daydream with cookbooks for a perfect Autumn day.

Here are just some of the new (and old tles) that might inspire you to retreat from the madding crowd

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Wri en in a Country Churchyard"

Ah, the peace of an Autumn day with a good book in hand—lei