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Book An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress and Other Stories

Download or read book An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress and Other Stories written by Thomas Hardy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An Indiscretion in the Life of a Heiress', is one of ten stories - three collaborative, all uncollected - that are brought together in this volume. 'Indiscretion', derived from Hardy's unpublished first novel The Poor Man and the Lady, represents one of his earliest confrontations with theclass and gender issues which were to remain central to his fiction throughout his life. Several of the other stories, notably 'Destiny and a Blue Cloak', 'The Spectre of the Real', and 'The Unconquerable', raise similar questions, while at the same time illustrating, in typical Hardyan fashion,life's little (or somewhat larger) ironies. Some of the other stories are less characteristic: 'Old Mrs Chuncle', for example, approximates moral fable more closely than is usual for Hardy, while 'Our Exploits at West Poley' is anomalous not only in being (like 'The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing') a story written for children but alsoin experimenting with unreliable narration. Such stories are signifcant precisley because they incoporate varieties of technique, subject matter, and genre that are otherwise found in the Hardy canon either rarely or not at all.

Book Old Mrs  Chundle

Download or read book Old Mrs Chundle written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas Hardy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780198122456
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Thomas Hardy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this edition are ten stories which were never collected into volumes during Hardy's lifetime. Some contain references to actual people, or plot elements that he reused elsewhere, and others, such as his stories for children, were simply too different from his other work in the short story form. Although all of these stories occupy significant positions within Hardy's career, none has previously received serious editorial treatment. For the most part they have been ignored, lightly passed over, or misinterpreted by critics and biographers. This edition remedies some of the deficiencies in Hardy scholarship, both in its historical introductions and in its critically edited texts, which are based on full collations of all editions published before Hardy's death and all surviving manuscripts, typescripts, and previously neglected proofs.

Book Old Mrs Chundle  and Other Stories

Download or read book Old Mrs Chundle and Other Stories written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Thomas Hardy Dictionary

Download or read book A Thomas Hardy Dictionary written by F. B. Pinion and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary provides explanations of references and words used with rare meanings, sources of quotations and allusions, identifications of fictional places and people, major symbols and important influences with critical comments on all Hardy's novels, short stories and poetry.

Book Thomas Hardy Annual No  2

Download or read book Thomas Hardy Annual No 2 written by Norman Page and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-06-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Short Stories of Thomas Hardy

Download or read book Short Stories of Thomas Hardy written by Kristin Brady and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-06-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy

Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy written by Rosemarie Morgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, some of the most prominent Hardy specialists working today offer an overview of Hardy scholarship and suggest new directions in Hardy studies. The contributors cover virtually every area relevant to Hardy's fiction and poetry, including philosophy, palaeontology, biography, science, film, popular culture, beliefs, gender, music, masculinity, tragedy, topography, psychology, metaphysics, illustration, bibliographical studies and contemporary response. While several collections have surveyed the Hardy landscape, no previous volume has been composed especially for scholars and advanced graduate students. This companion is specially designed to aid original research on Hardy and serve as the critical basis for Hardy studies in the new millennium. Among the features are a comprehensive bibliography that includes not only works in English but, in acknowledgment of Hardy's explosion in popularity around the world, also works in languages other than English.

Book The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874 1888

Download or read book The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874 1888 written by Thomas Hardy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "See if she is dark or fair, and if you can, notice if her hands be white; if not, see if they look as though she had ever done housework, or are milker's hands like mine." So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The Withered Arm', the title story in this selection of Hardy's finest short stories. Hardy's first story, 'Destiny and a Blue Cloak' was written fresh from the success of Far From the Madding Crowd. Beautiful in their own right, these stories are also testing-grounds for the novels in their controversial sexual politics, their refusal of romance structures, and their elegiac pursuit of past, lost loves. Several of the stories in The Withered Arm were collected to form the famous volume, Wessex Tales (1888), the first time Hardy denoted 'Wessex' to describe his fictional world. The Withered Arm is the first of a new two-volume selection of Hardy's short stories, edited with an introduction and notes by Kristin Brady.

Book Thomas Hardy  His Life and Friends

Download or read book Thomas Hardy His Life and Friends written by F.B. Pinion and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-06-07 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography contains new disclosures and interpretations of evidence, neglecting nothing significant in Hardy's early years or his later life. It draws from innumerable sources, including all his published writings (not least the poems), biographies of him and of contemporaries, correspondence of friends and acquaintances, Emma Hardy's diaries, and many unpublished letters from her and Florence Hardy, and brief background introductions indicate how some of Hardy's friends influenced his career or enriched his life.

Book From Hardy to Faulkner

Download or read book From Hardy to Faulkner written by John Rabbetts and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-04-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas Hardy  Metaphysics and Music

Download or read book Thomas Hardy Metaphysics and Music written by Mark Asquith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating new study by Mark Asquith offers an original approach to Hardy's art as a novelist and entirely new readings of certain musical scenes in Hardy's works. Asquith utilizes a rich seam of original archival research (both scientific and musicological), which will be of use to all Hardy scholars, and discusses a range of Hardy's major works in relation to musical metaphors - from early fiction The Poor Man and the Lady to later major works Jude the Obscure, Far From the Madding Crowd, the Mayor of Casterbridge .

Book Thomas Hardy  Distracted Preacher

Download or read book Thomas Hardy Distracted Preacher written by Timothy R. Hands and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-07-03 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alternative Hardy

Download or read book Alternative Hardy written by Lance Butler and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-07-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas Hardy s Short Stories

Download or read book Thomas Hardy s Short Stories written by Juliette Berning Schaefer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals, gender and community relationships, and narrative techniques. Taken together, the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important, not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist, but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote.

Book Short Stories by Thomas Hardy

Download or read book Short Stories by Thomas Hardy written by Thomas Hardy and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each book offers up to six stories, arranged in order of difficulty, with integrated support material