Great Classic Library - Hardy - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0681005726 ISBN 13: 9780681005723

Publisher: Bounty Books, 1994

Synopsis

Thomas Hardy, (1840 – 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. He gained fame as the author of novels, including Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) In this book: Tess of the d'Urbervilles Far from the Madding Crowd The Mayor of Casterbridge

About this title

About the Author:

Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has published eight collections of poetry as well as a Selected Poems 1972-1990, two major anthologies, two versions of Greek drama, and several critical works, including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style and, most recently, Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent. His most recent collection of poems is The Road to Inver (2004). Well known for his appearances on the BBC's Newsnight Review, he is also the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bounty Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0681005726
• ISBN 13: 9780681005723
• Binding: Paperback