The Woodlanders (The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy) - Hardcover

Hardy, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107046505 ISBN 13: 9781107046504

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

The Woodlanders (1887) was Thomas Hardy's elventh published novel and the one he claimed to like 'as a story, the best of all'. It is a story of wide appeal, having much to say on themes such as marriage and social class, and with a background revealing its author's profound knowledge and appreciation of many matters, particularly nature and country life. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides an authoritative and accurate text which aims to reflect Hardy's original artistic intention and represent the novel as it would have been read by his Victorian readers. The novel is supported by a comprehensive introduction, chronology and accompanying textual apparatus which allows the modern reader to trace the novel's evolution from composition to first publication and through several stages of revision in succeeding editions in the quarter of a century following its first publication.

About this title

Book Description:

Thomas Hardy's eleventh published novel, The Woodlanders, is a story of wide appeal. It considers themes of marriage and social class, while revealing the author's profound knowledge of nature and country life. The authoritative text of this critical edition is supported by a comprehensive introduction, chronology and accompanying textual apparatus.

About the Author:

Alan Manford was formerly Head of English Department in a Birmingham comprehensive school. He has edited the Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (1985) and Life's Little Ironies (1996).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1107046505
• ISBN 13: 9781107046504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 788
• Editor: Manford Alan