The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters (Penguin Classics S.) - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140435557 ISBN 13: 9780140435559

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

This novel traces the life of Ethelberta Chickerel. She is born into a low class family of servants and workmen, but manages to become a part of high intellectual society by a fortunate marriage, becoming a writer, poet and storyteller.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140435557
• ISBN 13: 9780140435559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480