The Woodlanders

by Thomas Hardy

Overview

Critical edition of Thomas Hardy's eleventh published novel reflects Hardy's original artistic intention and is supported by essential contextual material.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781986690515
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/27/2018
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.34(d)

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).

Date of Birth:

June 2, 1840

Date of Death:

January 11, 1928

Place of Birth:

Higher Brockhampon, Dorset, England

Place of Death:

Max Gate, Dorchester, England

Education:

Served as apprentice to architect James Hicks

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Woodlanders; Editorial emendations; Textual notes; Record of variants – accidentals; End-of-line word division; Appendix A: the title-page verse; Appendix B: Hardy's prefaces; Appendix C: illustrations; Appendix D: description of substantive editions; Appendix E: compositorial stints for Macmillan's Magazine; Appendix F: 'pin-holes' in the manuscript of The Woodlanders; Appendix G: compositorial stints for the 1912 Wessex edition; Explanatory notes; Glossary of dialect terms; Map of Wessex.

Editorial Reviews

The finest English novel.”—Arnold Bennett

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