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Explores Hardy's account in fiction of the individual man or
woman's relationship with various aspects of the encompassing world
- with other individual men and women, with the aggregation known
as society, with the natural and artificial environment and with
the supernatural.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Paperback)
Thomas Hardy; Edited by Simon Gatrell, Juliet Grindle; Introduction by Penny Boumelha
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R232
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Discovery Miles 1 710
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'She looked absolutely pure. Nature, in her fantastic trickery, had
set such a seal of maidenhood upon Tess's countenance that he gazed
at her with a stupefied air: "Tess- say it is not true! No, it is
not true!"' Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's
fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic
d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces
her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she
is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with
her and she faces an agonizing moral choice. Hardy's indictment of
society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as 'a pure
woman', caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination
of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess
the most deeply felt character he ever created. This unique
critical text is taken from the authoritative Clarendon edition,
which is based on the manuscript collated with all Hardy's
subsequent revisions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature
from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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The Return of the Native (Paperback, New)
Thomas Hardy; Edited by Simon Gatrell; Notes by Nancy Barrineau; Introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet
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R291
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Discovery Miles 2 110
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'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire'
Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to
experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry,
passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but
his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent
draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.
Early readers responded to Hardy's 'insatiably observant'
descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H. Lawrence
provided the 'real stuff of tragedy'. For modern readers, the
tension between the mythic setting of the heath and the modernity
of the characters challenges our freedom to shape the world as we
wish; like Eustacia, we may not always be able to live our dreams.
This edition has a critically established text based on the
manuscript and first edition, and without the later changes that
substantially altered Hardy's original intentions.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the
eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland
and an extension of Sutherland's work in various fields, including
nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the
publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary
puzzles. With contributions from over twenty-five distinguished
critics, literary journalists and scholars, this book goes beyond
merely describing Sutherland's work. The essayists pay homage to
Sutherland while also staking their own critical/scholarly claims.
From investigating the publishing dimension, Victorians major and
minor, the complexities of Dickens and George Eliot, the
"archeology" of Pride and Prejudice to examining the implications
of Shakespearean souvenirs, literary puzzles, and Non-Victorians,
the essays offer fresh dimensions to Sutherland's rich career as a
professor, critic, and journalist.
Simon Gatrell offers a fresh and stimulating exploration of Hardy's
account in fiction of the individual man or woman's relationship
with various aspects of the encompassing world- with other men and
women, with the aggregation known as society, with the natural and
artificial environment, and with the supernatural. He focuses on
the importance of community in Hardy's fiction, especially on the
ability of rural villages and towns to withstand the stresses of
industrialized agriculture and the national standardization of
education and culture.
This edition presents a critically established text based on
comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among
his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to
include his most characteristic work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over
100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest
range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
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