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Hardy, Thomas; Manford, Alan (Edited by)
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Oxford and New York Oxford University Press; World's Classics Ser. 1985 0192816845 / 9780192816849 Reprint, 1991 Mass Market Paperback Good
xxxiv, 393 pp., maps, bib. notes; 19 cm. First published in serial form, 1872-73. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "This novel is of special interest because of the strong autobiographical parallels between the characters and circumstances of Stephen Smith and Elfride Swancourt and those of Hardy and his first wife Emma Gifford. This was the third of Hardy's novels to be published and the first to bear his name." - Publisher.
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Hardy, Thomas; Wright, James (Afterword by)
Far from the Madding Crowd
New York Signet; New American Library 1961 0451516605 / 9780451516602 Mass Market Paperback Good
384 pp., map; 18 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "There is in England no more real or typical district than Thomas Hardy's imaginary Wessex, the scattered fields and farms of which were first discovered in Far from the Madding Crowd. It is here that Gabriel Oak observes Bathsheba, the young mistress of Weatherbury Farm, fall victim to her amorous caprices. He stands by her through one marriage to a handsome, corruptly sentimental sergeant. Selflessly altruistic, he sees her through another betrothal to her compulsive, puritanical neighbor - as unaware as she of the stroke of Fate that will effect their ultimate union. Published anonymously and first attributed to George Eliot, Far from the Madding Crowd won Hardy immediate success; it combines an architecturally perfect plot with the philosophical overtones that were to set the theme for all his later works. / Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth - Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At sixteen, Hardy was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, Hardy published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novels - Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure - he announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors. He died on January 11, 1928, and was buried in Poet's Corner, in Westminster Abbey. It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy." - Publisher.
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Hardy, Thomas; Blythe, Ronald (Edited by)
Far from the Madding Crowd
Harmondsworth Penguin Books; Penguin Classics 1985 0140431268 / 9780140431261 5th printing Mass Market Paperback Good
493 pp : 18 cm. First published, 1874. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Droplet stain/flyleaf, otherwise tight & clean. Browning. "Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success of Far from the Madding Crowd persuaded Hardy to give up his first profession, architecture, to concentrate on writing fiction. The story of the ill-fated passions of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors offers a spectacle of country life brimming with an energy and charm not customarily associated with Hardy. / Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth - Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At sixteen, Hardy was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, Hardy published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novels - Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure - he announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors. He died on January 11, 1928, and was buried in Poet's Corner, in Westminster Abbey. It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy." - Publisher.
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Hardy, Thomas
Jude the Obscure
New York Bantam Books 1981 0553211919 / 9780553211917 Mass Market Paperback Very Good
5th printing. 444 pp.; 18 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "In 1895 Hardy's final novel, the great tale of Jude The Obscure, sent shockwaves of indignation rolling across Victorian England. Hardy had dared to write frankly about sexuality and to indict the institutions of marriage, education, and religion. But he had, in fact, created a deeply moral work. The stonemason Jude Fawley is a dreamer; his is a tragedy of unfulfilled aims. With his tantalizing cousin Sue Bridehead, the last and most extraordinary of Hardy's heroines, Jude takes on the world--and discovers, tragically, its brutal indifference. The most powerful expression of Hardy's philosophy, and a profound exploration of man's essential loneliness, Jude The Obscure is a great and beautiful book. / Thomas Hardy, whose writings immortalized the Wessex country side and dramatized his sense of the inevitable tragedy of life, was born near Egdon Heath Dorset in 1840, the eldest child of a prosperous stonesmason. As a youth he trained as an architect in 1862 obtained a post in London. During this time he began seriously to write poetry, which remained his first literary love and his last. In 1867-68, his fist novel was refused publication, but Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), his first Essex novel, did well enough for him to continue writing. In 1874, Far from the Madding Crowd, published serially and anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine, became a great success. Hardy married Emma Gifford in1874, and in 1855, they settled at Max Gate in Dorchester, where he lived the rest of his life. There he wrote The Return of the Native (1878) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). With Tess Hardy clashed with the expectations of his audience; a storm of abuse broke over the 'infidelity' and 'obscenity' of this great novel he had subtitled 'A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented.' Jude the Obscure aroused even greater indignation and was denounced as pornography. Hardy's disgust at the reaction to Jude led him to announce in 1896 that he would never write fiction again. He published the Wessex Poems in 1898, Poems of the Past and Present in 1901, and from 1903 to 1908, The Dynasts, a huge drama in which Hardy's conception of the Immanent Will, implicit in the tragic novels, in most clearly stated. In 1912, Hardy's wife Emma died. The marriage was childless and had long been a troubled one, but in the years after her death, Hardy memorialized her in several poems. At 74, he married his longtime secretary, Florence Dugdale, herself a writer of children's books and articles, with whom he lived happily until his death in 1928. His heart was buried in the Wessex countryside; his ashes were placed next to Charles Dickens's in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey." - Publisher.
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Hardy, Thomas
The Mayor of Casterbridge
New York Bantam Classic 1981 0553210246 / 9780553210248 Mass Market Paperback Very Good
326 pp.; 18 cm. First published, 1886. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "From its spectacular opening - the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair - to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy's finest and most powerful novels. Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesome Sophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willful Henchard rises to a position of wealth and power - only to suffer a most bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to his own destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, 'Hardy's Lord Jim' - his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction." - Publisher.
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Hardy, Thomas; Kramer, Dale (Edited by)
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Oxford and New York Oxford University Press 1987 0192817280 / 9780192817280 11th printing Mass Market Paperback Good
lii, 403 pp., map, biblio.; 19 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth in the historical town of Dorchester, and it is to these familiar surroundings that he turns for the setting of this novel. This edition is the first critically established text of The Mayor of Casterbridge, based on a detailed study of the manuscript and of Hardy's revised printed versions." - Publisher.
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Hardy, Thomas; Moody, Rick (Introduction by)
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Oxford and New York Oxford University Press; World's Classics Ser. 2003 0195168445 / 9780195168440 First edition thus Trade Paperback Very Good TV Tie-in
xxiv, 335 pp.; 20 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. A&E tie-in. "Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author's unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives. Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but his unchanged impulsiveness clouds his relationships in love as well as his fortunes in business. Although Henchard is fated to be a modern-day tragic hero, unable to survive in the new commercial world, his story is also a journey towards love." - Publisher.
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