The woodlanders / Thomas Hardy; edited and with an introduction and notes by Patricia Ingham

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

ISBN 10: 0140431454 / ISBN 13: 9780140431452

Published by London: Penguin, 1998

About this Item

Good paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Minor browning to the pages. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: xliii, 419 p.: map; 19 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxiv-xxxvi). Subjects: Country life England Wessex Fiction. Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Fiction. Forests and forestry; Fiction. Arranged marriage; Fiction. Social classes; Fiction. England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction. Wessex (England) Fiction. Dorset (England) Social life and customs; Fiction. Genre: Literature. Psychological fiction. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The woodlanders / Thomas Hardy; edited and with an introduction and notes by Patricia Ingham
• Publisher: London: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140431454
• ISBN 13: 9780140431452
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

The setting is gentler than in some of Hardy's novels, but the story is similar - thwarted love and ruined lives.

About the Author

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.