Under the Greenwood Tree (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199538514 ISBN 13: 9780199538515

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 2009

Synopsis

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.
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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.

Synopsis:

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 this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199538514
• ISBN 13: 9780199538515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Gatrell Simon