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ISBN 9781593082239 (1-59308-223-1, 1593082231)

by Thomas Hardy, Jonathan A. Cook

ISBN 1593082231 (1-59308-223-1)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble

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Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was '...the past was yesterday; never, the day after'. And lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with '...a fearful sense of exposure', when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba.
The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods. [via]

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ISBN 9780861366002 (0-86136-600-X, 086136600X)

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Far from the Madding Crowd/the Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 086136600X (0-86136-600-X)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub

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Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 1417937114 (1-4179-3711-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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When Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure appeared in 1895, it immediately caused scandal and controversy. Its frank treatment of Jude's sexual relationships with Arabella and Sue, its scathing criticisms of late-Victorian hypocrisy, its depiction of the "New Woman," and its attacks on "holy wedlock" and religious bigotry outraged numerous reviewers; one called the book "Jude the Obscene." Others saw it as brilliantly progressive in its ideas and techniques. Vivid and complex, satiric and harrowing, this novel marked the culmination of Hardy's development as a leading novelist of the cultural transition from the Victorian to the Modernist era. The Broadview edition restores the original, controversial 1895 text. [via]

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ISBN 9780330344685 (0-330-34468-4, 0330344684)

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Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy, Ian Gregor

ISBN 0330344684 (0-330-34468-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Tragic consequences result from Michael Herchard's impetuous sale of his wife and daughter. [via]

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ISBN 9781551111223 (1-55111-122-5, 1551111225)

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy, Norman Page

ISBN 1551111225 (1-55111-122-5)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

Thomas Hardys first masterpiece, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a scene of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today. A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit of drunken rage, sells his wife and baby daughter to a stranger at a country fair. Stricken with remorse, Henchard forswears alcohol and works hard to become a prosperous businessman and the respected mayor of Casterbridge. But he cannot erase his past. His wife ultimately returns to offer Henchard the choice of redemption or a further descent into his own self-destructive nature. A dark, complex story, The Mayor of Casterbridge brims with invention, vitality, and even wit.

Phillip Lopate, a professor at Hofstra University in New York City, is best known as an essayist (Bachelorhood, Against Joie De Vivre, Portrait of My Body). He is the editor of the anthology Art of the Personal Essay and has written a novel, The Rug Merchant, and a book of poetry, The Daily Round.

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ISBN 9781593082208 (1-59308-220-7, 1593082207)

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The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy, Lauren Walsh

ISBN 1593082207 (1-59308-220-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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The central figure of this novel is the returning "native", Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye. As character after character is driven to self-destruction, the presence of Egdon Heath becomes all-embracing, while Clym becomes a preacher. [via]

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ISBN 9780713155068 (0-7131-5506-X, 071315506X)

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Sel 43 Tess D'urbervilles

by S. E. L. 43 HUGMAN

ISBN 071315506X (0-7131-5506-X)
Softcover, Ashgate Publishing, Limited

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When John Durberyfield discovers a family connection to the ancient Norman family, the d'Urbervilles, the fate of daughter Tess is transformed. [via]

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ISBN 9781419151057 (1-4191-5105-3, 1419151053)

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 1419151053 (1-4191-5105-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

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Highly controversial because of its frank look at the sexual hypocrisy of Victorian society, Thomas Hardys Tess of the DUrbervilles was nonetheless a great commercial success when it appeared in 1891. It is now considered one of the finest novels in English.

Using richly poetic language to frame a shattering narrative of love, seduction, betrayal, and murder, Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy dUrbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec dUrberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies in infancy. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer Tess love and salvation, but he rejects heron their wedding nightafter learning of her past. Emotionally bereft, financially impoverished, and victimized by the self-righteous rigidity of English social morality, Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act.

With its compassionate portrait of a young rural woman, powerful criticism of social convention, and disarming consideration of the role of destiny in human life, Tess of the DUrbervilles is one of the most moving and memorable of Hardys novels.

David Galef has published nine books: the novels Flesh and Turning Japanese; two children's books, The Little Red Bicycle and Tracks; two translations of Japanese proverbs, Even Monkeys Fall from Trees and Even a Stone Buddha Can Talk; a work of literary criticism, The Supporting Cast; an edited anthology of essays called Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading; and, most recently, the short-story collection Laugh Track. In addition, he has written more than seventy short stories for magazines ranging from the British Punch to the Czech Prague Revue, the Canadian Prism International, and the American Shenandoah. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, Twentieth Century Literature, The Columbia History of the British Novel, and many other places. He is a professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where he also administers the M.F.A. program in creative writing.

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Tess Of The d'Urbervilles

by Simon Gatrell, Penny Boumelha, Juliet Grindle, Thomas Hardy

ISBN 019284069X (0-19-284069-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice.
Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman," caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created. This unique critical text is taken from the authoritative Clarendon edition, which is based on the manuscript collated with all Hardy's subsequent revisions. [via]

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Terence Wright

ISBN 0391034510 (0-391-03451-0)
Softcover, Humanities Press International

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ISBN 9780140435146 (0-14-043514-X, 014043514X)

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Tom Dolin

ISBN 014043514X (0-14-043514-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Hardy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a survey of critical responses to the work since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. [via]

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ISBN 9780451530271 (0-451-53027-6, 0451530276)

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Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Woman

by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 0451530276 (0-451-53027-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's "bestseller," and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men--Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who seduces her in a lonely wood, and Angel Clare, her provincial, moralistic, and unforgiving husband--Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act.
----"Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination," said Irving Howe. "In Tess he stakes everything on his sensuous apprehension of a young woman's life, a girl who is at once a simple milkmaid and an archetype of feminine strength. . . . Tess is that rare creature in literature: goodness made interesting."
----Now Tess of the d'Urbervilles has been brought to television in a magnificent new co-production from A&E Network and London Weekend Television. Justine Waddell (Anna Karenina) stars as the tragic heroine, Tess; Oliver Milburn (Chandler & Co.) is Angel Clare; and Jason Flemyng is Alec d'Urberville. The cast also includes John McEnery (Black Beauty) as Jack Durbeyfield and Lesley Dunlop (The Elephant Man) as Joan Durbeyfield. Tess of the d'Urbervilles is directed by Ian Sharp and produced by Sarah Wilson, with a screenplay by Ted Whitehead; it was filmed in Hardy country, the beautiful English countryside in Dorset where Thomas Hardy set his novels.

The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-
dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. [via]

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Tess of the D'urbervilles: Stage 6 2,500 Headwords

by Thomas Hardy, Jennifer Bassett

ISBN 0194230945 (0-19-423094-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy

by Peter Widdowson

ISBN 0312090927 (0-312-09092-7)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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Thomas Hardy's the Mayor of Casterbridge

by Hardy

ISBN 0671006177 (0-671-00617-7)
Softcover, Monarch Notes

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ISBN 9780192835178 (0-19-283517-3, 0192835173)

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Under the Greenwood Tree

by Thomas Hardy, Simon Gatrell

ISBN 0192835173 (0-19-283517-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work. [via]

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