Ecco Press, May 1995. Trade Paperback. Extraordinary claims for a dead poet are best made on the basis of his entire oeurve; as we are perusing only some of Thomas Hardy's work, we may dodge the temptation. Suffice it to say that he is one of the very few poets..... More
Modern Library, December 2001. Trade Paperback. Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy's passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, "The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the..... More
Easton Press, January 1977. Leather. Easton Press Leatherbound Collector's Edition, 1977; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy brown leather boards w/ immaculate gilt design/text at front and rear covers, hubbed spine; Outer edge text-block in gilt w/ silk moire end-papers; Pages free of markings; Silk ribbon page marker present and undamaged; An..... More
Rodale Press, January 1949. Cloth. Small quarto (Six & 3/4-inches x Nine & 1/2-inches) In heavily chipped/edgeworn dustjacket with damp staining. Grey cloth with damp stains. Tanned/darkened end pages. More
W. W. Norton & Company, December 1990. Trade Paperback. 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..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, December 1990. Trade Paperback. 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..... More
Penguin Books, February 1999. Paper Back. The arrival of two newcomers in the quiet village of Mellstock arouses a bitter feud and leaves a convoluted love affair in its wake. While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village's musicians with his decision to abolish the church's traditional "string..... More
Penguin Classics, September 1998. Trade Paperback. 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..... More
Oxford University Press, October 2008. Trade Paperback. Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba..... More
Macmillan & Co. LTD, 1964. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. {4 & 1/2' x 6 & 3/4'}. Tanning to spine and textblock edge. Faint toning to cover. Beautiful front cover illustration by Lola Fiedling. Also nice frontispiece map of Wessex, a literary landscape of Hardy's making, with fictitious..... More
Modern Library, April 1998. Hardcover. 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..... More
Bantam Classics, March 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy's most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark..... More
