Reading Thomas Hardy

Reading Thomas Hardy
Author: George Levine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2017-05-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316834018

This major new reading of the novels of Thomas Hardy, by leading critic George Levine, disentangles the author's often elaborately distanced prose from his beautiful poetic and precise renderings of the natural world. Clear, direct and minimally academic in his own writing, Levine provides an overview of Hardy's entire fictional canon, with extensive discussions of his early and late novels including his last, The Well-Beloved. Levine draws new attention to the way Hardy absorbed both the ideas and the writing strategies of Charles Darwin, and develops new perspectives first articulated in the criticism of great novelists - in particular Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. Levine departs from the critical norm by reading Hardy in the context of his deep feeling for the natural world and all living things, and the implicit affirmation of life that sometimes drives his bleakest narratives.

TRUMPET MAJOR JOHN LOVEDAY A S

TRUMPET MAJOR JOHN LOVEDAY A S
Author: Thomas 1840-1928 Hardy
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2016-08-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781372930867

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy
Author: Claire Tomalin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2007-01-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101201924

"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own. The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual and religious conventions of his time in his novels and then abandoned fiction to reestablish himself as a great twentieth-century lyric poet. In this acclaimed new biography, Claire Tomalin, one of today's preeminent literary biographers, investigates this beloved writer and reveals a figure as rich and complex as his tremendous legacy.

Wessex Tales

Wessex Tales
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1905
Genre: Wessex (England)
ISBN:

Two on a Tower Annotated

Two on a Tower Annotated
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre:
ISBN:

Two on a Tower, a tale of star crossed love, is considered a minor work of Thomas Hardy. When it was published, it was called 'shocking' and 'repulsive'. So, make of that what you will. But this was Victorian England, and the book tells the tale of an aristocratic woman falling in love with a 'commoner' who is 8 years younger than her.

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy
Author: Joelle Herr
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-08-13
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0762453303

Thomas Hardy was one of the greatest Victorian novelists and twentieth-century poets, exploring themes of the human experience and challenging sexual and religious conventions in a way that few other books of his time did. Collected here in this mini compact tome are comprehensive plot summaries and character profiles from each of his fourteen novels, complemented by two-color illustrations throughout.

The Woodlanders Illustrated

The Woodlanders Illustrated
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2020-09-20
Genre:
ISBN:

The Woodlanders is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It was serialised from May 1886 to April 1887 in Macmillan's Magazine[1] and published in three volumes in 1887.[2] It is one of his series of Wessex novels.

What the Shepherd Saw

What the Shepherd Saw
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2013-04-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781484811184

It might have been about eleven o'clock when he awoke. He was so surprised at awaking without, apparently, being called or struck, that on second thoughts he assumed that somebody must have called him in spite of appearances, and looked out of the hut window towards the sheep. They all lay as quiet as when he had visited them, very little bleating being audible, and no human soul disturbing the scene. He next looked from the opposite window, and here the case was different. The frost-facets glistened under the moon as before; an occasional furze bush showed as a dark spot on the same; and in the foreground stood the ghostly form of the trilithon. But in front of the trilithon stood a man.